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To think to keep things as they are, is to let them move unpredictably, since nothing but death will still the beat…
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Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone…
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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence…
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An absolute condition of all successful living, whether for an individual or a nation, is the acceptance of death.
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The portion we see of human beings is very small: their formats and faces, voices and words.... beyond these, like an immense…
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The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one…
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We love those people who give with humility, or who accept with ease.
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The true gardener then brushes over the ground with slow and gentle hand, to liberate a space for breath round some favorites;…
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There is generosity in giving, but gentleness in receiving.
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All the feeling which my father could not put into words was in his hand-any dog, child or horse would recognize the…
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You will, if you're wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown and accept…
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If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands.…
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The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art of life is to have as many of them…
— Michel de Montaigne
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The Life of the intellect is the best and pleasantest for man, because the intellect more than anything else is the man.…
— Aristotle
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The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.
— H. L. Mencken
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There are three ways to spoil a public man: women, gambling, and listening to experts. The first is the pleasantest, the second…
— Georges Pompidou
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The pleasantest of all diversions is to sit alone under the lamp, a book spread out before you, and to make friends…
— Yoshida Kenko
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If I were to choose among all gifts and qualities that which, on the whole, makes life pleasantest, I should select the…
— Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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One of the pleasantest things in the world is going on a journey; I can enjoy society in a room; but out…
— William Hazlitt
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Men there have been who have done the essayist's part so well as to have earned an immortality in the doing; but…
— William Ernest Henley
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A pleasant letter I hold to be the pleasantest thing that this world has to give.
— Anthony Trollope
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Happiness is at once the best, the noblest, and the pleasantest of things.
— Aristotle
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One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends.
— Rachel Field
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One of the pleasantest things in the world is going on a journey; but I like to go by myself.
— William Hazlitt
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