#pleasures

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home! ↗

— Charles Dickens

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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.

#pleasures #relish #small #think #think big

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

— William Feather

#business #interfering #makes #other #pleasure

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

#belief #best #earned #fairly #founded

Happy indeed is the scientist who not only has the pleasures which I have enumerated, but who also wins the recognition of fellow scientists and of the mankind which ultimately benefits from his endeavors. ↗

— Irving Langmuir

#benefits #endeavors #enumerated #fellow #happy

It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old. ↗

— Leigh Hunt

#old #our #pleasures #recall #refine

Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields. ↗

— Christopher Marlowe

#come #fields #groves #hills #live

Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire. ↗

— Quintilian

#desire #excite #forbidden #lawful #loved

Sometimes, the simple things are more fun and meaningful than all the banquets in the world ... ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#experiences #fun #inspirational #life #life-lessons