#pleas

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#being #beloved #loving #more #pleasure

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources. ↗

— Herbert Spencer

#bring #come #gained #happiness #little

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it. ↗

— Anne Spencer

#alone #breakfast #enough #how #husband

Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please. ↗

— Edmund Spenser

#death #does #ease #greatly #life

It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#come #easily #himself #imagine #man

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#direct #drawback #fame #fancy #great

As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography. ↗

— Norman Spinrad

#biography #child #fiction #historical #history

The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly. ↗

— Stendhal

#less #more #pleases #profoundly

Ever since I began to compose, I have remained true to my starting principle: not to write a page because no matter what public, or what pretty girl wanted it to be thus or thus; but to write solely as I myself thought best, and as it gave me pleasure. ↗

— Felix Mendelssohn

#began #best #compose #ever #gave

Please accept a promise from me in his name that I will always live in the religion in which he died. ↗

— Giacomo Meyerbeer

#always #died #his #i #live