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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
Khalil Gibran
Friendship
Morning
Heart
Refreshed
Little Things
Laughter
Pleasures
Finds
Sharing
Dew
Little
Sweetness
Things
The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.
Charlotte Bronte
Hope
Dreams
Broken
Silence
Thoughts
Heart
Human Heart
Secret
Pleasures
Hidden
Hopes
Charms
Revealed
Were
Human
Sealed
Whose
Treasures
Kept
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
Christmas
Home
Man
Happy
Youth
Win
Old
Own
Back
Our
Pleasures
Delusions
Days
His
Quiet
Childhood
Old Man
Us
Transport
Traveler
Recall
Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values.
Joshua L. Liebman
Maturity
Values
Immediate
Pleasures
Long-Term
Person
Achieved
That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
Henry David Thoreau
Man
Rich
Pleasures
Cheapest
Whose
Serenity is the balance between good and bad, life and death, horrors and pleasures. Life is, as it were, defined by death. If there wasn't death of things, then there wouldn't be any life to celebrate.
Norman Davies
Life
Death
Good
Balance
Celebrate
Defined
Pleasures
Bad
Life And Death
Horrors
Between
Were
Any
Then
Good And Bad
Serenity
Things
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
Thomas Aquinas
Friendship
Become
Pleasures
Pursuits
Most
Without
Greatest
Source
Friends
Agreeable
Even
Tedious
Going to a restaurant is one of my keenest pleasures. Meeting someplace with old and new friends, ordering wine, eating food, surrounded by strangers, I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.
Adam Gopnik
Life
Food
Old
Wine
Strangers
Live
Think
Meeting
Pleasures
Restaurant
Eating
Someplace
Civilised
New
New Friends
Surrounded
Friends
Going
Ordering
Means
Keenest
Core
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
Service
Joy
Before
Nothingness
Other
Pleasures
Possessions
Neither
Spirit
Rendered
Without
Nor
Which
Helps
Servant
Pale
Served
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
Stendhal
Love
Fears
Our
Pleasures
Proportion
Always
Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.
Thomas Aquinas
Spiritual
Man
Joy
Become
Live
Addicted
Carnal
Pleasures
He
True
Joys
Without
Cannot
Deprived
Therefore
Necessary
I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.
C. S. Lewis
Joy
Sometimes
Pleasures
Wonder
Substitutes
Whether
Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!
Confucius
Man
Consider
Pleasures
Observe
Simply
Conceal
Look
Employs
Himself
His
Motives
Cannot
Which
Means
A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.
George Gurdjieff
You
Man
Suffering
Will
Pleasures
Give
He
Like
Renounce
His
Up
Any
God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
Francis Bacon
God
Gardening
Garden
First
Indeed
Pleasures
Purest
Almighty
God Almighty
Human
Planted
What a brutish master sin is, taking the joy from one's life, stealing money and health, giving promise of tomorrow's pleasures, and finally leading one onto the rotten planking that overlies the mouth of the pit.
Jim Elliot
Life
Health
Joy
Money
Tomorrow
Giving
Master
Mouth
Finally
Pleasures
Promise
Stealing
Onto
Taking
Leading
Sin
Pit
Rotten
If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.
Epictetus
Please
Pleasures
Bounds
Greatest
Cease
Moderation
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
Death
Pleasures
Poisoned
Like
Sinful
Forbidden
End
May
Bread
Them
Moment
Appetite
Satisfy
Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.
Ann Landers
Sunset
Happy
Marriage
Pleasures
Comet
Tranquillity
Lovely
Sensual
Happy Marriage
Fleeting
Brilliance
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
Jane Austen
World
Half
Other
Pleasures
One Half
Understand
Cannot
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
Fears
First
Dust
Too
Our
Pleasures
Claims
Hopes
Dead
Due
Debt
Die
Then
If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.
Audrey Hepburn
Sad
Home
Joy
World
Sadness
Tomorrow
Father
Will
Enough
Else
Back
Everything
Everything Else
Pleasures
Would
Had
Look
Leaving
Leaving Home
Were
Been
Cave
Lucky
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
Love
Me
Will
Live
Valleys
Pleasures
Come
Hills
Prove
Mountain
Yields
Romantic
Woods
Fields
The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
Luc de Clapiers
Fruit
Pleasures
Labor
Sweetest
Derived
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
Good
Man
Become
Own
Imagination
Others
Pleasures
Must
He
Put
Himself
Another
His
Greatly
Intensely
Place
Pains
Many
Species
Imagine
I have no taste for corruptible food nor for the pleasures of this life. I desire the Bread of God, which is the Flesh of Jesus Christ, who was of the seed of David, and for drink I desire His Blood, which is love incorruptible.
Ignatius of Antioch
Life
Love
God
Food
Christ
Pleasures
Seed
Drink
David
His
Nor
Blood
Taste
Bread
Which
Flesh
Who
Jesus
Jesus Christ
Desire
Incorruptible
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