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• The psychological impotence of our enraged generation must be traced to the overwhelming accusation of insincerity which every man and woman has to confront, in the depths of his own soul, when he seeks to love merely for his own pleasure.And yet the men of our time do not love with enough courage to risk even discomfort or inconvenience.

  Thomas Merton

  Men, Soul, Risk

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• Money often costs too much, and power and pleasure are not cheap.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Money, Cost, Too Much

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.58, Harvard University Press

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• To purchase Heaven has gold the power?
  Can gold remove the mortal hour?
  In life can love be bought with gold?
  Are friendship's pleasures to be sold?
  No--all that's worth a wish--a thought,
  Fair virtue gives unbribed, unbought.
  Cease then on trash thy hopes to bind,
  Let nobler views engage thy mind.

  Samuel Johnson

  Love Is, Views, Giving

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1837). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.554

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• When the desire of wealth is taking hold of the heart, let us look round and see how it operates upon than whose industry or fortune has obtained it. When we find them oppressed with their own abundance, luxurious without pleasure, idle without ease, impatient and querulous in themselves, and despised or hated by the rest of mankind, we shall soon be convinced that if the real wants of our condition are satisfied, there remains little to be sought with solicitude or desired with eagerness.

  Samuel Johnson

  Real, Heart, Desire

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• Don't trade future blessings for temporary pleasures.

  Don Davis

  Blessing, Trade, Temporary

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• If you acquit me, you will give me great pleasure. If you condemn me you will do me honour!

  Benito Mussolini

  Giving, Give Me, Honour

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• God does not need our worship. We worship to enlarge our sense of holy, so that we can feel and know the presense of the Lord, who is with us always. He said, Love is what it amounts to, a loftier love, and pleasure in a loving presence.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Love Is, Doe, Needs

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• Some say because music is as much about personal expression as listening pleasure, sharing is integral to why songs have value in the first place.

  Charles Duhigg

  Song, Expression, Listening

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• Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain, the enjoying of something I am in great trouble for till I have it.

  John Selden

  Pain, Trouble, Enjoy

  John Selden (1847). “The Table-talk of John Selden Esq: With a Biographical Preface and Notes”, p.149

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• Every perfect action is accompanied by pleasure. By that you can tell what you ought to do.

  Andre Gide

  Perfect, Action, Ought

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• Evidently stockholders have forgotten more than to look at balance sheets. They have forgotten also that they are owners of a business and not merely owners of a quotation on the stock ticker. It is time, and high time, that the millions of American shareholders turned their eyes from the daily market reports long enough to give some attention to the enterprises themselves of which they are the proprietors, and which exist for their benefit and at their pleasure.

  Benjamin Graham

  Eye, Long, Giving

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• I'm more of a handbag girl; my guilty pleasure is bags. I don't even have a clue how many I own.

  Poppy Delevingne

  Girl, Bags, Clue

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• And there is no difference, in principle - but only in degree - between political and chattel slavery. The former, no less than the latter, denies a man's ownership of himself and the products of his labor; and asserts that other men may own him, and dispose of him and his property, for their uses, and at their pleasure.

  Lysander Spooner

  Men, Differences, Political

  Henry Bool, Lysander Spooner, Edwin C. Walker (1972). “Individualist anarchist pamphlets”

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• Some people read for instruction, which is praiseworthy, and some for pleasure, which is innocent, but not a few read from habit, and I suppose that this is neither innocent or praiseworthy. Of that lamentable company am I. Conversation after a time bores me, games tire me and my own thoughts, which we are told are the unfailing resource of a sensible man, have a tendency to run dry. Then I fly to my book as the opium-smoker to his pipe.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Running, Book, Men

  W. Somerset Maugham (2009). “Collected Short Stories”, p.11, Random House

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• The moral I draw is that the writer should seek his reward in the pleasure of his work and in release from the burden of thought; and, indifferent to aught else, care nothing for praise or censure, failure or success.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Care, Rewards, Moral

  W. Somerset Maugham (2012). “The Moon and Sixpence”, p.6, Courier Corporation

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• Buddha wrote a code which he said would be useful to guide men in darkness, but he never claimed to be the Light of the world. Buddhism was born with a disgust for the world, when a prince's son deserted his wife and child, turning from the pleasures of existence to the problems of existence. Burnt by the fires of the world, and already weary with it, Buddha turned to ethics.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Children, Buddhism, Son

  Fulton J. Sheen (2008). “Life of Christ”, p.204, Image

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• Happiness that depends mainly on physical pleasure is unstable; one day it's there, the next day it may not be.

  Dalai Lama

  Next Day, One Day, May

  Dalai Lama (2009). “The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living”, p.40, Penguin

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• Tea is the only simple pleasure left to us.

  Oscar Wilde

  Simple, Tea, Left

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.888, Delphi Classics

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• Richard Gavin is one of the bright new stars in contemporary weird fiction. His richly textured style, deft character portrayal, and powerful horrific conceptions make every one of his tales a pleasure to read.

  S. T. Joshi

  Stars, Powerful, Character

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• I was enthralled and moved by Azar Nafisi's account of how she defied,
  and helped others to defy, radical Islam's war against women.
  Her memoir contains important and properly complex reflections
  about the ravages of theocracy, about thoughtfulness, and about the
  ordeals of freedom-as well as a stirring account of the pleasures and
  deepening of consciousness that result from an encounter with great
  literature and with an inspired teacher.

  Susan Sontag

  Teacher, War, Reflection

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• There are countries in which public establishments are considered by the government as its own personal affair, so that it admits persons to them only according to its pleasure, just as a proprietor refuses at his pleasure admission into his house; they are a sort of administrative sanctuaries, into which no profane person can penetrate. These establishments, on the contrary, in the United States, are considered as belonging to all. The prisons are open to everyone who chooses to inspect them ad every visiter may inform himself of the order which regulates the interior.

  Gustave de Beaumont

  Country, Government, Order

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• I have terrible taste in things: music, movies, TV shows. I love all the guilty pleasures: Bravo, Real Housewives.

  Grace Helbig

  Real, Tv Shows, Taste

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• Give us an intense distaste for things that displease You and a renewed pleasure in things that bring You honor and magnify Your truth.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Giving, Honor, Intense

  Charles R. Swindoll (2010). “Laugh Again Hope Again: Two Books to Inspire a Joy-Filled Life”, p.214, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Neither pleasure nor pain should enter as motives when one must do what must be done.

  Julius Evola

  Pain, Done, Should

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• Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure.

  Peter Morgan

  Reading, Nonfiction, Feels

  "The Six Senses of Peter Morgan". Interview with Daniel D'Addario, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 15, 2010.

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