Quotes 301 till 320 of 334.
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Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.
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We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.
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We have dreamt of every woman there is, and dreamt too of the miracle that would bring us the pleasure of being a woman, for women have all the qualities - courage, passion, the capacity to love, cunning - whereas all our imagination can do is naively pile up the illusion of courage.
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We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.
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What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it up. That's all that can be said about land.
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What is a demanding pleasure that demands the use of ones mind! Not in the sense of problem solving, but in the sense of exercising discrimination, judgment, awareness.
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What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.
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What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.
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When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.
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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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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.
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When pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.
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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.
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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
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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 -
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.
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Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation.
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Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.
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