#pleasure

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing. ↗

— George A. Sheehan

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It is my pleasure to support a candidate who truly reflects our values and highest ideals. ↗

— Martin Sheen

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A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world. ↗

— John Steinbeck

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Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure. ↗

— Mark Strand

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She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again. ↗

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

#again #fishing #friend #good #good friend

Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour. ↗

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

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