Duty Quote by Mason Cooley Download Open image “The Puritan sours his pleasures by disguising them as duties.” — Mason Cooley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Duty Pleasure Puritan
“He had sprung from a rigid Puritan stock, and had been brought up to think much more intently of the duties of this life… — Henry James Copy Share Image
There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Puritanism was an honourable mood; it was a noble fad. In other words, it was a highly creditable mistake. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Too much of the old Puritan spirit exists in these parts to the present hour; but its influence has not tended, that I know,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The Puritans thought they could simply repress man's sexual nature, and they reaped a whirlwind as a result. Their code of sexual morality -… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
“The Puritans turned work into a virtue, evidently forgetting that God invented it as a punishment.” — Tim Kreider Copy Share Image
You know the puritan ethic that started out four centuries ago in this country, needless to say - at least for the moment -… — James Young Copy Share Image
“A puritan may go to his brown-bread crust with as gross an appetite as ever an alderman to his turtle. Not that food which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The Puritans hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Puritan, of course, is not entirely devoid of aesthetic feeling. He has a taste for good form; he responds to style; he is… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
I pray that wherever we are and whatever duties we have in the priesthood of God, we will be united in the cause to… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
Few political debates have been as divisive as the European one. I fought as hard as I could on the Remain side, but I… — Damian Green Copy Share Image
I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had… — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
“Is that what they teach you at the convent? That the gods demand the hearts from our bodies?” — Robin LaFevers Copy Share Image
The less we show our love to a woman, Or please her less, and neglect our duty, The more we trap and ruin her… — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
We can find common qualities and common values that have made Britain the country it is. Our belief in tolerance and liberty which shines… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“You have a right to be sad, and a duty to move on. Only wins who wipes the tears, gather strength and move forward.” — Augusto Branco Copy Share Image
Our duty as Christians is always to keep heaven in our eye and earth under our feet. — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
May God bless each of us in our calls to serve. May our faith strengthen as we serve in righteousness, faithfully keeping the commandments.… — L. Tom Perry Copy Share Image
Regardless of how you feel about war and peace those serving military are doing a duty for the rest of us and they're protecting… — Linda Cardellini Copy Share Image
