Pain wastes the Body, Pleasures the Understanding.
Pain wastes the Body, Pleasures the Understanding.
The honest man takes pains, and then enjoys pleasures the knave takes pleasure, and then suffers pain.
The Difficulty lies, in finding out an exact Measure but eat for Necessity, not Pleasure, for Lust knows not where Necessity ends.
Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
Our friend and we were invited aboard on a party of pleasure, which is to last forever. His chair was ready first, and he has gone before us. We could not all conveniently start together and why should you and I be grieved at this, since we are soon to follow, and know where to find him.
Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.
Every accent, every emphasis, every modulation of voice, was so perfectly well turned and well placed, that, without being interested in the subject, one could not help being pleased with the discourse a pleasure of much the same kind with that received from an excellent piece of music. This is an advantage itinerant preachers have over those who are stationary, as the latter can not well improve their delivery of a sermon by so many rehearsals.
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