Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Gratitude, Pain, Spring

  "Intuitions and Summaries of Thought".

• Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Happiness, Happy, Joy

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.87

• A particular disappointment is seldom more than an excrescence upon the trunk of a general good--a shower that spoils the pleasure party, but refreshes and enriches the earth.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Disappointment, Party, Earth

• Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Life, Noble, Rich

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.14

• When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Tired, Thinking, Pleasure

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.86

• There is no sense of weariness like that which closes in a day of eager and unintermittent pursuit of pleasure. The apple is eaten, but "the core sticks in the throat." Expectation has then given way to ennui, appetite to satiety.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Apples, Expectations, Way

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.142

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