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" Quotes and Sayings About pleasure

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Greatest Life Pleasure People
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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
Job Pleasure Put Work
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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

Wise Secure Pleasure Avoid
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The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect. You need a temperament that neither derives great pleasure from being with the crowd or against the crowd.

Pleasure Crowd Intellect Temperament
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Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me.

Discriminate Company Against Beyond
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Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.

Pleasure Angry Deny Me
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I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasure. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Somebody Pain People Can
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You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. It doesn’t do anything to the object of its displeasure. So use that anger. You write it. You paint it. You dance it. You march it. You vote it. You do everything about it. You talk it. Never stop talking it.

Angry Bitter Cancer Host
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Pain, pleasure and death are no more than a process for existence. The revolutionary struggle in this process is a doorway open to intelligence.

Pleasure Struggle Process Intelligence
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All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.

All Dream World Pleasure
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God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

GOd Purest Human Planted
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Don’t risk an eternity of joy in Paradise for a moment of fleeting pleasure.
Risk Eternity Joy Paradise
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Work is work if you're paid to do it, and it's a pleasure if you pay to be allowed to do it.

Work Paid Pleasure Allowed
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Love is the key to the mystery. Love by its very nature is not selfish, but generous. It seeks not its own, but the good of others. The measure of love is not the pleasure it gives-that is the way the world judges it-but the joy and peace it can purchase for others.

Love Key Mystery Very
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I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.

Ever Given Laughter Line
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There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.

Always Anxiety Goes Pleasure
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Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.

Achievements Air Bad Fresh
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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

Cheat Come Conditions Deeper
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A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.

Accepted Been Excited Fugitive
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One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Calls Continue Find Greatest
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I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

Joy Pleasures Sometimes Whether
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The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.

Control Controls Having How
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The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.

Behaviors Bodies Change Changing
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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Agreeable Become Even Friends
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Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.

Addicted Become Cannot Carnal
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Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields.

Fields Hills Live Love
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The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
Joy Noblest Pleasure Understanding
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The book tour has been really interesting and very gratifying. I have not book toured before. I've never had quite as much pleasure, as much satisfaction.

Been Before Book Book Tour
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Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.

Man Men Nor Pleasure
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I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.

Believe Christianity Great Great Mind
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The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust.

Bears Disgust Vine Grapes
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The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.

Dog Fool Great He
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If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.

Instead Pleasure Work Balance
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Someone may ask, 'How is justice greater than all the other virtues?' The other virtues gratify the one who possesses them; justice does not give pleasure to the one possessing it, but instead pleases others.

Ask Does Give Gratify
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Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

Breathless Haste Hurry Men
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The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.

Attainable Becoming Cannot Come
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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
Art Pleasure Poetry Truth
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That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.

Beautiful Contemplation Derived Intense
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

Affords Another Difficulties Forming
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When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

Conversation Does Had He
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It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

Foolish Nature Pleasures Resist
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If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

Bounds Cease Greatest Moderation
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There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.

Cutting Down Element Later
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No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God's good pleasure; but let this be your conclusion and let it so be thought, that - as is the perfect truth - it was the gift of God.

According Anything Conclusion Did
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You have to pretend that your life is a financial pleasure even when your autographs are bouncing.

Pretend Have That Your
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I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

Am Company Country Cured
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
Double Pleasure Deceive
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Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.

Coming Dividends Do You Know Gives
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I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

Devoted I Can Less Life
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The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

The God This World
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