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“Music may appeal to crude and coarse feelings or to refined and noble ones; and in so far as it does the latter it awakens the higher nature and works an effect, though but a transitory effect, of a beneficial kind. But the primary purpose of music is neither instruction nor culture but pleasure; and this is an all-sufficient purpose.”

Kind May Doe Feelings Purpose Culture Pleasure Effects Higher Music Is Noble Primaries Appeals Sufficient Latter Instruction Beneficial Refined Crude Transitory Coarse

Book:Works

Source: Works

“Vanity in its idler moments is benevolent, is as willing to give pleasure as to take it, and accepts as sufficient reward for its services a kind word or an approving smile.”

Giving Kind Moments Pleasure Accepting Willing Rewards Vanity Sufficient Benevolent Kind Words Idlers Approving

Book:Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country

Source: Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country

“Poverty is a bitter thing; but it is not as bitter as the existence of restless vacuity and physical, moral, and intellectual flabbiness, to which those doom themselves who elect to spend all their years in that vainest of all vain pursuits-the pursuit of mere pleasure as a sufficient end in itself.”

Years Ends Pleasure Existence Moral Poverty Intellectual Mere Pursuit Bitter Vain Sufficient Restless Doom Vacuity

Book:Works: The strenuous life

Source: Works: The strenuous life

“Pleasure is the rock which most young people split upon; they launch out with crowded sails in quest of it, but without a compassto direct their course, or reason sufficient to steer the vessel; for want of which, pain and shame, instead of pleasure, are the returns of their voyage.”

People Want Reason Pain Young Courses Pleasure Rocks Return Direct Shame Sufficient Quests Splits Sail Vessel Crowded Voyages Steers

Book:Lord Chesterfield's Letters

Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters