"A young man of pleasure is a man of pains."
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"It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having."
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"The pleasures of spring are available to everybody and cost nothing."
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"Anyone who's never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn't know what pleasure is."
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"Nothing will be able to hinder us, if we desire and seek God alone, and take pleasure in nothing else."
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"We must certainly acknowledge that solitude is a fine thing; but it is a pleasure to have some one who can answer, and to whom we can say, from time to time, that solitude is a fine thing."
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"The pleasure is in the path, the search for something good."
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"God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain."
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"Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is"
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"Not every song I write is ecstasy. And it can happen only one time. After that, when you sing the same melody and words, it's pleasure, but you don't get wiped out."
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"If we have no friends, we have no pleasure; and if we have them, we are sure to lose them, and be doubly pained by the loss."
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"The variety of all things forms a pleasure."
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"The price we pay for our irresponsible explanatory urge is that we often spoil our most pleasant experiences by making good sense of them."
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"The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and likewise pain."
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"Anticipation of pleasure is, in itself, a very considerable pleasure."
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"To learn and from time to time to apply what one has learned - isn't that a pleasure?"
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"Let it not be imagined that the life of a good Christian must be a life of melancholy and gloominess; for he only resigns some pleasures to enjoy others infinitely better."
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"Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content."
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"In educating the young we steer them by the rudders of pleasure and pain"
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"Beauty is also a Gift of God, one of the most rare and precious, and we should be thankful if we are happy enough to possess it and thankful, if we are not, that others possess it for our pleasure."
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