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• Good days are to be gathered like grapes, to be trodden and bottled into wine and kept for age to sip at ease beside the fire. If the traveler has vintaged well, he need trouble to wander no longer; the ruby moments glow in his glass at will.

  Freya Stark

  Good Day, Wine, Fire

  Freya Stark (2013). “Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel”, p.147, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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• He is not always at ease who laughs.

  Dante Alighieri

  Laughter, Laughing

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• We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.

  Livy

  Adversity, Comfort

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• Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates. Social meetings are periods of penance to them, and any appearance in public will unnerve them. They go much about alone, and blush when women speak to them. In truth, they are not as yet men, whatever the number may be of their years; and, as they are no longer boys, the world has found for them the ungraceful name of hobbledehoy.

  Anthony Trollope

  Men, Boys, Names

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...”, p.1549, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

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• Busy work brings after ease; Ease brings sport and sport brings rest; For young and old, of all degrees, The mingled lot is best.

  Joanna Baillie

  Sports, Degrees, Busy

  Joanna Baillie (1976). “The dramatic and poetical works”, p.806, Georg Olms Verlag

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• A Bradypus or Sloth am I, / I live a life of ease, / Contented not to do or die / But idle as I please.

  Michael Flanders

  Sloth, Indolence, Flanders

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• Assimilation is really a psychological process where you come to identify with a new country as yours. The ease of overseas travel and information access interferes with that.

  Mark Krikorian

  Country, Where You Come, Information

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• My waking thoughts are all of thee. Your portrait and the remembrance of last night's delirium have robbed my senses of repose. Sweet and incomparable Josephine, what an extraordinary influence you have over my heart. Are you vexed? Do I see you sad? Are you ill at ease? My soul is broken with grief, and there is no rest for your lover.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Sweet, Grief, Heart

  "Napoleon's Letters to Josephine 1796-1812" edited by Henry Foljambe Hall, 1901.

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• Willful sterility is, from the standpoint of the nation, from the standpoint of the human race, the one sin for which the penalty is national death, race death; a sin for which there is no atonement. No man, no woman, can shirk the primary duties of life, whether for love of ease and pleasure, or for any other cause, and retain his or her self-respect.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Love, Men, Race

  United States. President (1901-1909 : Roosevelt), Theodore Roosevelt (1906). “Message of the President of the United States Communicated to the Two Houses of Congress at the Beginning of the Second Session of the Fifty-ninth Congress”

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• No nation deserves to exist if it permits itself to lose the stern and virile virtues; and this without regard to whether the loss is due to the growth of a heartless and all-absorbing commercialism, to prolonged indulgence in luxury and soft, effortless ease, or to the deification of a warped and twisted sentimentality.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Loss, Luxury, Heartless

  Nobel Lecture, delivered 5 May 2010, Oslo, Norway

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• If we lose the virile, manly qualities, and sink into a nation of mere hucksters, putting gain over national honor, and subordinating everything to mere ease of life, then we shall indeed reach a condition worse than that of the ancient civilizations in the years of their decay.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Years, Civilization, Honor

  Theodore Roosevelt (1897). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt: American ideals, with a biographical sketch by F. V. Greene. Administration”

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• If we seek merely swollen, slothful ease and ignoble peace, if we shrink from the hard contests where men must win at the hazard of their lives and at the risk of all they hold dear, then bolder and stronger peoples will pass us by, and will win for themselves the domination of the world.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Life, Peace, Winning

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.7, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• We are constantly misled by the ease with which our minds fall into the ruts of one or two experiences

  William Osler

  Fall, Two, Mind

  William Osler (1927). “Aequanimitas”, p.21, Ravenio Books

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• If men with fleshly mortals must be fed, and chew with bleeding teeth the breathing bread; what else is this but to devour our guests, and barbarously renew Cyclopean feasts? While Earth not only can your needs supply, but, lavish of her store, provides for luxury; a guiltless feast administers with ease, and without blood is prodigal to please.

  Pythagoras

  Men, Blood, Breathing

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• Let God be the air in which your heart breathes at ease.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Letting Go, Healing, Heart

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• How blest is he who crowns in shades like these A youth of labour with an age of ease!

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Retirement, Age, Crowns

  'The Deserted Village' (1770) l. 99

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• We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences. We cannot bear a pointless torment, but we can endure great pain if we believe that it's purposeful. Ease makes less of an impression on us than struggle. We could have been ourselves without our delights, but not without the misfortunes that drive our search for meaning. 'Therefore, I take pleasure in infirmities,' St. Paul wrote in Second Corinthians, 'for when I am weak, then I am strong.'

  Andrew Solomon

  Motivational, Strong, Pain

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• As you become more conscious of your body as eternity, a sense of ease, a fullness beyond description occurs.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Body, Purity

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• It is not intuitive ease I am after, but rather a point of view which is sufficiently definite to clear up some difficulties, and to be criticized in rational terms. (Bohr's complementarity cannot be so criticized, I fear; it can only be accepted or denounced - perhaps as being ad hoc, or as being irrational, or as being hopelessly vague.)

  Karl Popper

  Science, Views, Accepted

  Karl Popper, W.W. Bartley, III (2013). “Quantum Theory and the Schism in Physics: From the Postscript to The Logic of Scientific Discovery”, p.103, Routledge

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• Men are naturally lazy, and require some great stimulus to goad their flagging ambitions and enable them to overcome the inertia which comes from ease and the consciousness of inherited wealth. Whatever lessens in a young man the feeling that he must make his way in the world cripples his chance of success. Poverty has ever been the priceless spur that has goaded man up to his own loaf.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Ambition, Men, Feelings

  Orison Swett Marden (2006). “Rising in the World, Or Architects of Fate”, p.429, Cosimo, Inc.

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• In my mind nothing is more abhorrent than a life of ease. None of us has any right to ease. There is no place in civilization for the idler.

  Henry Ford

  Civilization, Mind, Abhorrent

  Henry Ford (2015). “My Life and Work: Top Biography”, p.10, 谷月社

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• For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?

  John Dryden

  Thinking, Giving, Drink

  John Dryden (1870). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden”, p.133

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• A hundred thousand men, coming one after another, cannot move a Ton weight; but the united strength of 50 would transport it with ease.

  George Washington

  Teamwork, Moving, Men

  George Washington (1908). “Letters and Addresses,”

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• For to interpose a little ease, Let our frail thoughts dally with false surmise.

  John Milton

  Littles, Frail

  1637 Lycidas, l.152-3.

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• So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap, or be with ease Gathered, not harshly plucked, for death mature: This is old age; but then thou must outlive Thy youth, thy strength, thy beauty, which will change To withered weak and grey.

  John Milton

  Mother, Age, Lap

  1665 Michael to Adam. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.11, l.535-40.

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