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• It's the honesty you apply to your playing that makes music enjoyable. The style of the music has little to do with it. It's only honesty makes it beautiful.

  Elvin Jones

  Music, Beautiful, Honesty

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• We are supposed to enjoy the good stuff now, while we can, with the people we love. Life has a funny way of teaching us that lesson over and over again.

  Sheena Easton

  Life Lesson, Teaching, Love Life

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• For Solomon, he lived at ease, and full Of honour, wealth, high fare, aimed not beyond Higher design than to enjoy his state.

  John Milton

  Design, Ease, Wealth

  John Milton (2014). “Paradise Regained In Plain and Simple English: A Modern Translation and the Original Version”, p.33, BookCaps Study Guides

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• O how sweet it is to enjoy life, Living in honesty and strength! And wisdom is sweet, And freedom.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wisdom, Sweet, Honesty

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• Let me posses what I now have, or even less, so that I may enjoy my remaining days, if Heaven grant any to remain.

  Horace

  Heaven, May, Posse

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• I work even in the middle of the day, in the full sunshine, and I enjoy it like a cicada.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Work, Sunshine, Cicadas

  Vincent van Gogh, Ronald Pickvance (1984). “Van Gogh in Arles”, p.27, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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• Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.

  Pliny the Elder

  Common, Consideration, Share

  Pliny the Elder (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Pliny the Elder (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• The greatest and most amiable privilege which the rich enjoy over the poor is that which they exercise the least--the privilege of making others happy.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Exercise, Privilege, Wealth

  Charles Caleb Colton (1866). “Lacon: or, Many things in few words”, p.268

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• And hearts resolved and hands prepared The blessings they enjoy to guard.

  Tobias Smollett

  Heart, Blessing, Hands

  Samuel Johnson, Thomas Parnell, Thomas Gray, Tobias Smollett, George Gilfillan (1855). “The Poetical Works of Johnson: Parnell, Gray, and Smollett, with Memoirs, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes”, p.245

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• Life is like our game at whist ... I don't enjoy the game much, but I like to play my cards well, and see what will be the end of it.

  George Eliot

  Life, Games, Play

  "Felix Holt, The Radical".

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• A book should teach us to enjoy life, or to endure it.

  Samuel Johnson

  Book, Enjoy Life, Should

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• May our children and our children's children to a thousand generations, continue to enjoy the benefits conferred upon us by a united country, and have cause yet to rejoice under those glorious institutions bequeathed us by Washington and his compeers.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Children, Generations

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.450, Wildside Press LLC

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• One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.

  Moliere

  Happiness, Believe, Mistrust

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• Let him who believes in immortality enjoy his happiness in silence; he has no reason to give himself airs about it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Believe, Air, Giving

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.82, Ravenio Books

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• He scatters enjoyment who can enjoy much.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Enjoyment

  "Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric. ; [One line from Juvenal]" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.

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• One man lies in his words, and gets a bad reputation; another in his manners, and enjoys a good one.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Lying, Men, Reputation

  Henry David Thoreau, John C. Broderick, Robert Sattelmeyer (1981). “Journal”, p.145, Princeton University Press

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• All the world suffers from the usury of the Jews, their monopolies and deceit. They have brought many unfortunate people into a state of poverty, especially the farmers, working class people and the very poor. Then as now Jews have to be reminded intermittently anew that they were enjoying rights in any country since they left Palestine and the Arabian desert, and subsequently their ethical and moral doctrines as well as their deeds rightly deserve to be exposed to criticism in whatever country they happen to live.

  Pope Clement VIII

  Country, Class, Rights

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• Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.

  Jodi Picoult

  Inspirational, Life, Lonely

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

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• Whatever you do, if you do it hard enough you'll enjoy it. The important thing is to work and work hard.

  David Rockefeller

  Work, Important, Enough

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• In dwelling, live close to the ground.
  In thinking, keep to the simple.
  In conflict, be fair and generous.
  In governing, don't try to control.
  In work, do what you enjoy.
  In family life, be completely present.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Family

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• To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.

  Seneca the Younger

  Peace, Mind, Able

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• We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right." "True happiness is ... to enjoy the present" "It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

  Seneca the Younger

  Appreciation, Inspirational Life, Adversity

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• Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Travel, Home, Tourism

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.156, Courier Corporation

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• True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing.

  Seneca the Elder

  Want, True Happiness, Anxious

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• It is not what we have but what we enjoy that constitutes our abundance.

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  Inspirational, Abundance

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