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Pleasure Quotes by John Ruskin
- Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.
- Pleasure comes through toil, and not by self indulgence and indolence. When one gets to love work, his life is a happy one.
- The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise, as the greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure.
- Architecture is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man, that the sight of them may contribute to his mental health,…
- I love Coleridge ... and I am very willing to allow that he has more imagination than Wordsworth, and more of thereal poet. But after…
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