Pleasure Quotes
These are some of the best 'Pleasure' quotations and sayings.
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A life merely of pleasure, or chiefly of pleasure, is always a poor and worthless life, not worth the living; always unsatisfactory in its course, always miserable in its end.
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A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.
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All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.
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All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; 'tis like spending this year, part of the next year's revenue.
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Centers, or wooden frames are put under the arches of a bridge, to remain no longer than till the latter are consolidated, and then are thrown away or cast into the fire. Even so, sinful pleasures are the devil's scaffolding to build a habit upon; and once formed and fixed, the pleasures are sent for firewood, and hell begins in this life.
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Choose such pleasures as recreate much and cost little.
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Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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Fly the pleasure that bites tomorrow.
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Follow pleasure, and then will pleasure flee, Flee pleasure, and pleasure will follow thee.
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He buys honey too dear who licks it from thorns.
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He that is violent in the pursuit of pleasure will not mind turning villain for the purchase.
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He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man.
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He who can at all times sacrifice pleasure to duty approaches sublimity.
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I look upon it as an equal injustice to loath natural pleasures as to be too much in love with them.
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If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work: but when they seldom come, they wished for come, and nothing pleaseth but rare accidents.
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If I give way to pleasure, I must also yield to grief, to poverty, to labor, to ambition, to anger until I am torn to pieces by my misfortunes and my lust.
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If the soul be happily disposed everything becomes capable of affording entertainment, and distress will almost want a name.
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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It is sad to think how few our pleasures really are, and for which we risk eternal good.
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