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“In our pursuit of the things of this world, we usually prevent enjoyment, by expectation; we anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the heart and sweetness of worldly pleasures, by delightful forethoughts of them; so that when we come to possess them, they do not answer the expectation, nor satisfy the desires which were raised about them, and they vanish into nothing.”

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Book:The works of the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson containing two hundred sermons and discourses, on several occasions ...

Source: The works of the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson containing two hundred sermons and discourses, on several occasions ...

“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.”

Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

“Let us roll all our strength, and all Our sweetness, up into one ball: And tear our pleasures with rough strife, Through the iron gates of life. Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run.”

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Author:Andrew Marvell

“The gift of Truthovercomes all gifts.The joy of Truthovercomes all pleasures.The taste of Truthovercomes all sweetness.”

Joy Pleasure Taste Sweetness

Author:Gautama Buddha

“We anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the heart and sweetness of worldly pleasures by delightful forethought of them.”

Heart Pleasure Sweetness Delightful Worldly Anticipate Forethought Worldly Pleasures

Author:John Tillotson

“Human wisdom makes as ill use of her talent when she exercises it in rescinding from the number and sweetness of those pleasures that are naturally our due, as she employs it favorably and well in artificially disguising and tricking out the ills of life to alleviate the sense of them.”

Humans Wells Use Wisdom Pleasure Numbers Talent Exercise Ill Dues Sweetness Alleviate Human Wisdom

Book:The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

Source: The Essays of Michel de Montaigne