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153 quotesI have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.
Christians and Christianity
Lord Byron
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There is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
Pleasure
Lord Byron
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Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
Morality
Lord Byron
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In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.
Love
Italo Calvino
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Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.
Illusion
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
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Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.
Pleasure
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
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Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.
Pleasure
Pierre Charron
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Scandal is what one half of the world takes pleasure inventing, and the other half in believing.
Scandal
Paul Chatfield
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The mere brute pleasure of reading --the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
Books - Reading
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.
Pleasure
Marcus T. Cicero
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There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.
Sorrow
Marcus T. Cicero
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The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures.
Labor
Luc De Clapiers
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Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.
Marriage
William Congreve
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
Regret
William Cowper
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The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
Understanding
Leonardo Da Vinci
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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
Death and Dying
Clarence Darrow
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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.
Love
Robertson Davies
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May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future.
Past
Paul Dickson
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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
Pleasure
John Donne
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The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it.
Pleasure
Margaret Drabble
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Drinking is the soldier's pleasure.
Army and Navy
John Dryden
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Pains of love be sweeter far than all the other pleasures are.
Pain
John Dryden
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Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.
Pleasure
Augustine J. Duganne
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One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.
Recreation
George Eliot
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As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
Beauty
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun