#pleas

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery. ↗

— Maxim Gorky

#joy #life #life is a #pleasure #slavery

For God's sake, if you sin, take pleasure in it, and do it for the pleasure. ↗

— Gerald Gould

#pleasure #sake #sin #take #you

Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices. ↗

— Remy de Gourmont

#associates #his #ideas #interests #logic

I think instead writers and publishers and readers need to go to the places where people are, and make the argument that there is great value to the quiet, contemplative process of reading a novel, that reading great books carefully offers pleasures and consolations that no iPad app ever can. ↗

— John Green

#books #carefully #consolations #contemplative #ever

But if Shakespeare himself is maybe about meaning and truth, I don't know, then he is certainly about pleasure and interest, we start with pleasure and interest, but maybe eventually it gets to meaning and truth. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#certainly #eventually #gets #himself #i

First of all, Shakespeare is about pleasure and interest. He was from the first moment he actually wrote something for the stage, and he remains so. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#actually #first #first of all #interest #moment

I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#actually #else #give #i #i think

Pray God in the bowels of his mercy to send you his Holy Spirit; for he hath given you his great gift of utterance, if it pleased him also to open the eyes of your heart. ↗

— Jane Grey

#bowels #eyes #gift #given #god

Although it hath pleased God to hasten my death by you, by whom my life should rather have been lengthened, yet can I patiently take it, that I yield God more hearty thanks for shortening my woeful days. ↗

— Jane Grey

#been #days #death #god #hasten

I confess that reading proofs is a pleasure. It stimulates and inspires me. ↗

— Zane Grey

#i #inspires #me #pleasure #proofs