227.Quotes On Pleasure:Present:Reason-Part 7

"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.." -Aristotle-

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"He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow;but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.".-Benjamin Franklin-

"Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure;but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.".-Cardinal J. Newman-

"Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.".-Desiderius Erasmus

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"The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.".-George Santayana-

"Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.".-Jean Baudrillard-

"I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.".-Lord George Byron-

"For the rational, psychologically healthy man, the desire for pleasure is the desire to celebrate his control over reality. For the neurotic, the desire for pleasure is the desire to escape from reality.".-Nathaniel Branden-

"Sport inevitably creates deadness of feeling. No one could take pleasure in it who was sensitive to suffering;and therefore its pursuit by women is much more to be regretted than its pursuit by men, because women pursue much more violently and recklessly ".-Ouida-

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"Everyone is dragged on by their favorite pleasure.".-Virgil-

"The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.".-Abraham H. Maslow-

"There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.".-Anatole Broyard-

"Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires.".-Benjamin Franklin-

"Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.".-Cyril Connolly-

"A man's memory is bound to be a distortion of his past in accordance with his present interests, and the most faithful autobiography is likely to mirror less what a man was than what he has become.".-Fawn M. Brodie-

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"He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.".-Henry Ward Beecher-

"If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present.".-Les Brown-

"I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.".-Norman Mailer-

"Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-

"Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.".-Abraham Lincoln-

"Constitutions should consist only of general provisions;the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.".-Alexander Hamilton-

"One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus;we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.".-Anthony Robbins-

"They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.".-Benjamin Franklin-

"It is only when you are asked to believe in Reason coming from non-reason that you must cry Halt. Human minds. They do not come from nowhere.".-C. S. Lewis-

"Philosophic argument, especially that drawn from the vastness of the universe, in comparison with the apparent insignificance of this globe, has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that is in me;but my heart has always assured and reassured me that".-Daniel Webster-

"If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.".-Francis Quarles-

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"Faith is a higher faculty than reason.".-Henry Christopher Bailey-

"The reason American cars don't sell anymore is that they have forgotten how to design the American Dream. What does it matter if you buy a car today or six months from now, because cars are not beautiful. That's why the American auto industry is in trouble: no design, no desire.".-Karl Lagerfeld-

"To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!".-Louis-Ferdinand Celine-

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"Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our father's have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a large part than what we suspect of what we think.".-Oliver Wendell Holmes-

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