Pleasant Quotes

• I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.

  David Rockefeller

  Friendship, Family, Money

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Faith, Atheist

  Voltaire (1919). “Voltaire in His Letters: Being a Selection from His Correspondence”

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• A pleasant companion reduces the length of the journey.

  Publilius Syrus

  Journey, Length, Companion

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• If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Inspirational, Future, Adventure

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• Peace is so beneficial that the word itself is pleasant to hear.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Beneficial

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• I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.

  Moliere

  Annoyed, Vices, Annoying

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• It is pleasant to have been to a place the way a river went.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Rivers, Environmental, Way

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2215, Delphi Classics

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• Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

  Anna Neagle

  Loneliness, Solitude, Being Lonely

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• Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Love, Motivational, Family

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2003). “The Power of Positive Thinking: 10 Traits for Maximum Results”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

  Epicurus

  Life, Happiness, Wisdom

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• Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Hope, Safety, Acquaintance

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1853). “Sam Slick's wise saws and modern instances: or, What he said, did, or invented”, p.281

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• The Inhabitants of Carolina, thro' the Richness of the Soil, live an easy and pleasant Life.

  John Lawson

  Richness Of Life, Soil, Easy

  John Lawson (2010). “A New Voyage to Carolina”, p.83, BoD – Books on Demand

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• If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Spring, Adversity, Winter

  Anne Bradstreet (1867). “The Works of Anne Bradstreet in Prose and Verse”, p.51

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• Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Peaceful, Mind, Wish

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2003). “The Power of Positive Thinking: 10 Traits for Maximum Results”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• If we had not winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Inspirational, Life, Appreciation

  Anne Bradstreet, Adelaide P. Amore (1982). “A woman's inner world: selected poetry and prose of Anne Bradstreet”

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• Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

  Isaac Asimov

  Sympathy, Death, Depressing

  Isaac Asimov (1988). “Fantastic voyage II: destination brain”

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• There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on the feelings as now in October.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Nature, Autumn, Feelings

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2013). “Passages from the American Note-Books (Annotated Edition)”, p.183, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Good Morning, Good Day, Up Early

  Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”

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• Do unto yourself as your Neighbours do unto Themselves and look Pleasant.

  George Ade

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Looks

  "Hand-made Fables".

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• Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

  Confucius

  Believe, Age, Aging

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• Years ago my mother used to say to me, she'd say, "In this world, Elwood, you must be" - she always called me Elwood - "In this world, Elwood, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant." Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. You may quote me.

  Mary Chase

  Mother, Smart, Years

  "Fictional character: Elwood P. Dowd". "Harvey", www.imdb.com. December 20, 1950.

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• We're not retreating, we're advancing in reverse.' --Skulduggery Pleasant

  Derek Landy

  Reverse, Skulduggery Pleasant, Advancing

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• There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.

  Muhammad Ali

  Retirement, Greatness, People

  Twitter post from Dec 11, 2009

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• You are a cynical man, Mr. Pleasant." "We live in cynical times, Miss Cain.

  Derek Landy

  Men, Cynical, Missing

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• As it fell upon a day
  In the merry month of May,
  Sitting in a pleasant shade
  Which a grove of myrtles made.

  Richard Barnfield

  Myrtle, Sitting, May

  'Poems: In Divers Humours' (1598) 'An Ode'

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