#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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Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are. ↗

— John Dryden

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

— William Feather

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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

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All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation. ↗

— Francois Fenelon

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Boundaries are to protect life, not to limit pleasures. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

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Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains. ↗

— Democritus

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If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

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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

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

— Leigh Hunt

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