228.Quotes On Pleasure:Present:Reason-Part 8

"The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.." -Aristotle-

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"Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.".-Benjamin Franklin-

"The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.".-Charles Baudelaire-

"They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as cinnamon to them.".-Desiderius Erasmus

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"Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.".-Helen Rowland-

"There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.".-Jean Baudrillard-

"I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.".-Lord George Byron-

"Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals;love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure.".-Oliver Goldsmith-

"There is no such thing as pure pleasure;some anxiety always goes with it.".-Ovid-

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"If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?".-Virginia Woolf-

"The sense of obligation to continue is present in all of us. A duty to strive is the duty of us all. I felt a call to that duty.".-Abraham Lincoln-

"America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future.".-Anne Morrow Lindbergh-

"The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.".-Benjamin Franklin-

"Feeling sorry for yourself, and you present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.".-Dale Carnegie-

"The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.".-Frank Lloyd Wright-

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"You treat world history as a mathematician does mathematics, in which nothing but laws and formulas exist, no reality, no good and evil, no time, no yesterday, no tomorrow, nothing but an eternal, shallow, mathematical present.".-Hermann Hesse-

"You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.".-Les Brown-

"Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object.".-Northrop Frye-

"We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-

"I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.".-Abraham Lincoln-

"The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still.".-Alexander Pope-

"Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.".-Antoine Rivarol-

"Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason.".-Benjamin Franklin-

"I cannot love anyone if I hate myself. That is the reason why we feel so extremely uncomfortable in the presence of people who are noted for their special virtuousness, for they radiate an atmosphere of the torture they inflict on themselves. That is not ".-Carl Gustav Jung-

"Philosophical argument has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that was in me;but my heart has always assured me that the Gospel of Jesus Christ must be reality.".-Daniel Webster-

"Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct.".-Francois de la Rochefoucauld-

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"Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.".-Henry Fielding-

"The reason I'm in this business, I assume all performers are - it's ''Look at me, Ma!'' It's acceptance, you know - ''Look at me, Ma, look at me, Ma, look at me, Ma.'' And if your mother watches, you'll show off till you're exhausted;but if your mother goes, Ptshew!".-Lenny Bruce-

"If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him;but if he tells me it was his superior wisdom that enabled him to go there, then I know he is a fraud.".-Ludwig Wittgenstein-

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"You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house;favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse.".-Omar Khayyam-

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