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Few people want the pleasures they are free to take. — Ovid
One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer. — Lord Byron
It is better to drink of deep grief than to taste shallow pleasures. — William Hazlitt
And let your best be for your friend. If he must know the ebb of your tide, let him know its flood also. For what… — Khalil Gibran
It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them. — Samuel Johnson
The same refinement which brings us new pleasures exposes us to new pains. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
If you fall in love with an idea, you won't see the merits of alternative approaches-and will probably miss an opportunity or two. One of… — Roger von Oech
For me, one of the pleasures of cats company is their devotion to bodily comfort. — Compton Mackenzie
Success is how you collect your minutes. You spend millions of minutes to reach one triumph, one moment, then you spend maybe a thousand minutes… — Norman Lear
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
Sorrows, because they are lingering guests, I will entertain but moderately, knowing that the more they are made of the longer they will continue: and… — Joseph Hall
Death is half disarmed when the pleasures and interests of the flesh are first denied. — Richard Baxter
Faith, whereby especially Christ rules, sets the soul so high that it looks down on all other things as far below, as having represented to… — Richard Sibbes
As clouds are blown away by the wind, the thirst for material pleasures will be driven away by the utterance of the Lord's name. — Sarada Devi
Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures. — William Wycherley
The family should be a closely knit group. The home should be a self-contained shelter of security; a kind of school where life's basic lessons… — Billy Graham
There is reason to suspect, that the distinctions of mankind have more show than value, when it is found that all agree to be weary… — Samuel Johnson
Men, however distinguished by external accidents or intrinsick qualities, have all the same wants, the same pains, and, as far as the senses are consulted,… — Samuel Johnson
The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be. — Lillian Hellman
So called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments. — Seneca the Younger
I also ask you my friends not to condemn me entirely to the mill of mathematical calculations, and allow me time for philosophical speculations, my… — Johannes Kepler
A few years make such havoc in human generations that we soon see ourselves deprived of those with whom we entered the world, and whom… — Lyndon B. Johnson
The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon… — W. Somerset Maugham
Ordinarily, even when people become religious, they go on thinking in terms of having - possessing heaven or possessing the pleasures of heaven - but… — Rajneesh

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