Quotes 281 till 300 of 334.
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There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
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There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
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There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.
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They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as cinnamon to them.
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Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
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Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
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To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else - these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.
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To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.
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To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.
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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.
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To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is pleasure beyond compare.
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Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.
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True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.
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Variety in mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something s.
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Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.
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Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.
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