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Pleasure Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- The pleasures of the intellect are permanent, the pleasures of the heart are transitory.
- I derive no pleasure from talking with a young woman simply because she has regular features.
- Many college text-books, which were a weariness and stumbling-block when I studied, I have since read a little with pleasure and profit.
- The era of wild apples will soon be over. I wander through old orchards of great extent, now all gone to decay, all of native…
- I fear that he who walks over these fields a century hence will not know the pleasure of knocking off wild apples. Ah, poor man,…
- That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
- Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
- When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty…
- The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.
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