"An improper art aims at exciting in the way of comedy the feeling of desire but the feeling which is proper to comic art is the feeling of joy."
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"Taste the joy That springs from labor."
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"Trouble is the next best thing to enjoyment; there is no fate in the world so horrible as to have no share in either its joys or sorrows."
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"A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the joy to be found even in destruction."
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"Not joy is the mother of dissipation, but joylessness."
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"One drop of hatred left in the cup of joy turns the most blissful draught into poison."
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"Joy, in Nature's wide dominion, Mightiest cause of all is found; And 'tis joy that moves the pinion When the wheel of time goes round."
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"He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy. [for without sorrow how would you know what joy is? Contrast provides peceptive clarity]"
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"The human being places sexual intercourse above all other joys, but leaves it out of his heaven."
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"The joy which is caused by truth and noble thoughts shows itself in the words by which they are expressed."
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"When discipline is sown, like a good seed, it yields a harvest of things that fulfill and satisfy us-things that make us happy and release peace and joy in our lives."
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"Labour without joy is base. Labour without sorrow is base. Sorrow without labour is base. Joy without labour is base."
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"But were there ever any Writhed not at passed joy?"
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"No one will calmly and quietly submit to bear the cross except those who have learned to seek their happiness beyond this world."
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"the more we are oppressed by the cross, the fuller will be our spiritual joy."
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"The joys of the evil flow away like a torrent."
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"Grief and love are conjoined, you don't get one without the other. All I can do is love her, and love the world, emulate her by living with daring and spirit and joy."
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"Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured."
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"She comprehended the perversity of life, that in the struggle lies the joy."
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"It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow."
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