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Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are. ↗

— John Dryden

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Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end. ↗

— Tryon Edwards

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Our pleasures were simple - they included survival. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none. ↗

— David Brainerd

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Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures. ↗

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible. ↗

— William Feather

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Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation. ↗

— Francois Fenelon

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This sense of power is the highest and best of pleasures when the belief on which it is founded is a true belief, and has been fairly earned by investigation. ↗

— William Kingdon Clifford

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Boundaries are to protect life, not to limit pleasures. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

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