Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Love, Garden, Eden

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.10

• The fable runs that the gods mix our pains and pleasure in one cup, and thus mingle for us the adulterate immortality which we alone are permitted here to enjoy. Voluptuous raptures, could we prolong these at pleasure, would dissipate and dissolve us. A sip is the most that mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Running, Pain, Delight

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”, p.75

• Pleasure, that immortal essence, the beauteous bead sparkling in the cup, effervesces soon and subsides.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Essence, Cups, Pleasure

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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