#plea

Why had peace given place so soon to turmoil? To two separate solitudes? Because peace had been without thought? Without...integrity? How could she have felt like that without love? Was love essential? Did it even exist - the love she had dreamed of her life? If it did, it was too late now for her to find it. Must she make do with this instead, then? Only this? Pleasure without love? ↗

— Mary Balogh

#peace #pleasure #dreams

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator. ↗

— Confucius

#believe #comfortable #front #gently #given

Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

#although #art #arts #away #better

It's always a pleasure to find something that matters. ↗

— Don Cornelius

#find #matters #pleasure #something

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question? ↗

— Lily Tomlin

#answer #could #love #love is #please

The Barks of Trees are best gathered in the Spring, if it be of great Trees, as Oaks or the like, because then they come easiest off, and so you may dry them if you please, but indeed your best way is to gather all Barks only for present use. ↗

— Nicholas Culpeper

#because #best #best way #come #dry

I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one, please let it be practical and dark so that I can put it on afterwards to go to the laboratory. ↗

— Marie Curie

#be kind #dark #day #dress #enough

It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

#deceiver #pleasure #twice

I was never that much a focus of interest in my career. I'm aware of that now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure. ↗

— Harrison Ford

#career #focus #give #give me #i

Learn the duty as well as taste the pleasure of original work. ↗

— Robert James Graves

#learn #original #pleasure #taste #well