Quotes with pleasure-ground

Quotes 441 till 460 of 474.

  • Dr. Jess Lair When I do something in my family because I really enjoy it, then my duty has become my pleasure. And it is a pleasure for all the people around me.
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  • Buddha When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Jane Austen When pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Berthold Auerbach When the foot of the' mountain is enveloped in mist, the mountain appears to us much loftier than it is; so also when the ground and basis of a disaster is not clear to us.
    Berthold Auerbach
    German-Jewish writer and poet (1812 - 1882)
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  • Bhagavad Gita When the senses contact sense objects, a person experiences cold or heat, pleasure or pain. These experiences are fleeting they come and go. Bear them patiently.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Maxim Gorky When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
    Maxim Gorky
    Russian and Soviet writer (0 - 1936)
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  • B. B. King When you don't have much money, you worry that they'll just put you in the ground someplace and your loved ones won't know where you are.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Stanislaw Jerzy Lec When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.
    Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
    Polish writer (1909 - 1966)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson When your toil has been a pleasure, you have not earned money merely, but money, health, delight, and moral profit, all in one.
    Familiar Studies of Men and Books: Stevenson's (2016) 65
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Oscar Wilde Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Buddha Who ever lives looking for pleasure only, his senses uncontrolled, immoderate in his enjoyments, idle and weak, the tempter will certainly overcome him, as the wind blows down a weak tree.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Jane Austen Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Sir Arthur Helps Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away.
    Sir Arthur Helps
    English writer and dean of the Privy Council (1813 - 1875)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Camille Pissarro Work at the same time on sky, water, branches, ground, keeping everything going on an equal basis... Don't be afraid of putting on colour... Paint generously and unhesitatingly, for it is best not to lose the first impression.
    Camille Pissarro
    Danish-French Impressionist painter (1830 - 1903)
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  • George Sand Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.
    George Sand
    French writer (1804 - 1876)
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  • B. C. Forbes Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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  • Jalal-Uddin Rumi You are quaffing drink from a hundred fountains: whenever any of these hundred yields less, your pleasure is diminished. But when the sublime fountain gushes from within you, no longer need you steal from the other fountains.
    Jalal-Uddin Rumi
    Persian poet (1207 - 1273)
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  • A. J. McLean You can have whatever you want if you believe in yourself and keep your feet firmly planted in the ground.
    A. J. McLean
    American singer (1978 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?
    The Picture of Dorian Gray
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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