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Pleasure Quotes by Charles Dickens
- We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven's pleasure.
- The year end brings no greater pleasure then the opportunity to express to you season's greetings and good wishes. May your holidays and new year…
- Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth,…
- There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.
- He went to the church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and for, and patted the children on the head,…
- Let the tears which fell, and the broken words which were exchanged in the long close embrace between the orphans, be sacred. A father, sister,…
- How beautiful you are! You are more beautiful in anger than in repose. I don't ask you for your love; give me yourself and your…
- It will be your duty, and it will be your pleasure too to estimate her (as you chose her) by the qualities that she has,…
- He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil. Say that his…
- Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels,…
More Pleasure Quotes
- The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain. — Aristotle
- Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. — Aristotle
- Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures. — Aristotle
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure. — David Attenborough
- Vampires get the joy of flying around and living forever, werewolves get the joy of animal spirits. But zombies, they're not rich,… — Margaret Atwood
- We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and… — Saint Augustine
- The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. — Jane Austen
- Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable. — Jane Austen
- One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. — Jane Austen
- A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil… — Teresa of Avila
- To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure. — Honore de Balzac