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" Quotes and Sayings About pleasures

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

GOd Purest Human Planted
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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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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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I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

Joy Pleasures Sometimes Whether
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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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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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Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.

Books Reading You
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Reading well is one of the greatest pleasures that solitude can afford you.

Reading Pleasure Solitude You
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Our pleasures were simple - they included survival.

Survival Included Our Simple
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Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

Big Pleasures Relish Small
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The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

Lie Life Moderation Pleasures
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It's rare for me to read any fiction. I almost only read nonfiction. I don't believe in guilty pleasures, I only believe in pleasures. People who call reading detective fiction or eating dessert a guilty pleasure make me want to puke.

Almost Any Believe Call
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Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.

Alone Desire Excite Forbidden
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True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.

Certain Compromise Generally Heaven
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It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.

Compromise Found Heaven Pleasures
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Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.

Another Depend Man Poor
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There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win.

Been Fight Fights Pleasure
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One of my greatest pleasures is falling into a story someone else has written.
Else Falling Greatest Pleasures
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The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.
Pleasures Imagination Drawings Models
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I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation.

Am Doing Each Great
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It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate pleasures.

Consumption Goals Heights Pleasure
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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Objects Little happiness Gained
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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.
Common Love Occasional Passion
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Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.

Gives Many Nothing Pleasures
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One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
Cannot Half One Half Other
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They are surely to be esteemed the bravest spirits who, having the clearest sense of both the pains and pleasures of life, do not on that account shrink from danger.

Be esteemed Bravest spirit Clearest sense Pains
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Thinking is one of the greatest pleasures of the human race.

Thinking Greatest pleasures Human race
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I have spent the best years of my life giving people the lighter pleasures, helping them have a good time, and all I get is abuse, the existence of a hunted man.

Have spent Best years My life Lighter pleasures
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When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.
You compare The sorrow Real life Pleasure
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Fashion is free speech, and one of the privileges, if not always one of the pleasures, of a free world

Fashion Speech Privileges Pleasures
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Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Old age An honored Great authority More value
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Life is short And pleasures few And holed the ship And drowned the crew But o! But o! How very blue the sea is.

Life Is short Pleasures few Drowned
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Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.

Moderations Greatest Pleasures Pains
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The brave man is he who overcomes not only his enemies but his pleasures

Brave man Overcomes Enemies Pleasures
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Wishes, at least, are the easy pleasures of the poor.

Wishes Easy pleasures The poor
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Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.

Marriage Friendship Happy Pleasures
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The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.

Pleasures Mighty Tears Poor
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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.

Pleasures Love Proportion Fears
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Free men must live simple lives and have simple pleasures.

Free men Live Simple Pleasures
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All the great pleasures of life are silent.

Great Pleasures Life Silent
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The sweetest pleasures are those which are hardest to be won.

Sweetest Pleasures Hardest Won
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The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who knows how to create new ones.

Philosopher Person Pleasures Sorrow
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Envy, bitter envy, was permeating his soul drop by drop, like a poison that tainted all his pleasures and made his life hateful.

Envy Soul Pleasures Life
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Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.

Pains Love Sweeter Pleasures
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The joys of marriage are the heaven on earth, Life's paradise, great princess, the soul's quiet, Sinews of concord, earthly immortality, Eternity of pleasures.

Marriage Life's Soul's Pleasures
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Real are the dreams of gods, and soothly pass their pleasures in a long immortal dream.

Real Dreams Pleasures Immortal
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One of my greatest pleasures in writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably pretentious position. Then comes the saddening realization that such people rarely read

Pleasures Writing Work Read
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