Enjoyments Quotes
80 quotes by 58 authors
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Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproaches, and sufferings.
— Donald Cargill
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He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.
— C.S. Lewis
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It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man; that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in…
— Benjamin Disraeli
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Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with…
— Joseph Addison
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The pleasures arising from a right understanding of the divine testimonies are of the most delightful order; earthly enjoyments are utterly contemptible if compared with…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.
— Seneca the Younger
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It is not true that the legislator has absolute power over our persons and property, since they pre-exist, and his work is only to secure…
— Frederic Bastiat
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Our notions with respect to the importance of life, and our attachment to it, depend on a principle which has very little to do with…
— William Hazlitt
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O Winter! ruler of the inverted year, . . . I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fireside enjoyments, home-born happiness, And all the comforts…
— William Cowper
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Everything counts for gain when we are cosmically awake. Nothing counts, unless we are awake. No enjoyments last, no successes satisfy, no gains have meaning…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Money is one of the most important subjects of your entire life. Some of life's greatest enjoyments and most of life's greatest disappointments stem from…
— Robert G. Allen
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The love of money as a possession-as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life-will be recognized…
— John Maynard Keynes
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Capitalism is essentially a system of mass production for the satisfaction of the needs of the masses. It pours a horn of plenty upon the…
— Ludwig von Mises
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As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity, I collected…
— William Blake
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Let us consider, brethren, we are struggling for our best birthrights and inheritance, which being infringed, renders all our blessings precarious in their enjoyments, and,…
— Samuel Adams
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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
— Pliny the Elder
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The true enjoyments must be spontaneous and compulsive and look to no remoter end.
— C.S. Lewis
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The highest earthly enjoyments are but a shadow of the joy I find in reading God's Word.
— Lady Jane Grey
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Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant; a marriage of interest, easy; and a marriage where both…
— Joseph Addison
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In 1840 I was called from my farm to undertake the administration of public affairs and I foresaw that I was called to a bed…
— John Tyler
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