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“By the study of their biographies, we receive each man as a guest into our minds, and we seem to understand their character as the result of a personal acquaintance, because we have obtained from their acts the best and most important means of forming an opinion about them. "What greater pleasure could'st thou gain than this?" What more valuable for the elevation of our own character?”

Men Mind Mean Important Character Seems Pleasure Results Opinion Study Greater Gains Valuable Guests Biographies Acquaintance Elevation

Book:Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans: Complete

Source: Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans: Complete

“The children's lessons should provide material for their mental growth, should exercise the several powers of their minds, should furnish them with fruitful ideas, and should afford them knowledge, really valuable for its own sake, accurate, and interesting, of the kind that the child may recall as a man with profit and pleasure.”

Men Should Mind Kind May Children Ideas Growth Pleasure Interesting Materials Exercise Lessons Sake Profit Valuable Accurate Recalls

Book:The Original Home School Series

Source: The Original Home School Series

“There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.”

Real Pain Pleasure Labor Valuable Noble Without Pain

Author:Joseph Addison

“Riches are valuable at all times, and to all men, because they always purchase pleasures such as men are accustomed to and desire; nor can anything restrain or regulate the love of money but a sense of honor and virtue, which, if it be not nearly equal at all times, will naturally abound most in ages of knowledge and refinement.”

Ifs Men Age Desire Pleasure Virtue Honor Equal Valuable Riches All Time Accustomed Refinement Love Of Money

Book:Essays and treatises on several subjects in two volumes: Essays, moral, political, and literacy

Source: Essays and treatises on several subjects in two volumes: Essays, moral, political, and literacy

“And I refused to make any sacrifices; for nothing on earth seemed more valuable than my peace of mind, my pleasure and my acclaim.”

Mind Earth Pleasure Sacrifice Valuable Peace Of Mind Acclaim

Author:George Sand

“People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.”

People World Feels Important Beautiful Natural Pleasure Wonderful Valuable Natural World Amazement

Author:David Attenborough

“Remember anything you want that's valuable requires you to break through short-term pain in order to gain long-term pleasure.”

Want Long Motivational Pain Remember Order Term Pleasure Break Gains Valuable Long Term Short Term Break Through

Book:Awaken The Giant Within

Source: Awaken The Giant Within

“A friend who stands with you in pressure is more valuable than a hundred ones who stand with you in pleasure.”

Pleasure Hundred Pressure Valuable Fake Fake Friends

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“The pleasure of a good act is something to be remembered - not in order to feed our complacency but in order to remind us that virtuous actions are not only possible and valuable, but that they can become easier and more delightful and more fruitful than the acts of vice which oppose and frustrate them.”

Action Order Pleasure Easier Vices Valuable Remembered Virtuous Delightful Complacency

Author:Thomas Merton