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• We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.

  Seneca the Younger

  Asks

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• My god is a cheerful, pleasant, lively, and good-natured being.

  Heber C. Kimball

  Cheerful, Lively, Jovial

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• I had a pleasant time with my mind, for it was happy.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Happiness, Mind

  Louisa May Alcott (1997). “The Journals of Louisa May Alcott”, p.51, University of Georgia Press

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• Good resolutions are a pleasant crop to sow.

  Lucas Malet

  Resolution, Crops

  Lucas Malet (1885). “Colonel Enderby's Wife: A Novel”

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• Friends are like a pleasant park where you wish to go; while you may enjoy the flowers, you may not eat them.

  E. W. Howe

  Flower, Wish, May

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• Praise when merited is not a boon: yet to a generous nature, is it pleasant to utter it.

  Herman Melville

  Praise, Boon, Generous

  Herman Melville, Robert C. Ryan, Hershel Parker (2009). “Published Poems: The Writings of Herman Melville”, p.680, Northwestern University Press

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• Nothing is sweeter than love, nothing more courageous, nothing higher, nothing wider, nothing more pleasant, nothing fuller nor better in heaven and earth; because love is born of God, and cannot rest but in God, above all created things.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Spiritual, Love Is, Heaven

  Thomas a Kempis (2013). “The Imitation of Christ; Or, the Ecclesiastical Music”, p.120, Cambridge University Press

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• I was on the whole considerably discouraged by my school days... It is not pleasant to feel oneself so completely outclassed and left behind at the very beginning of the race.

  Winston Churchill

  School, Race, Discouraged

  "A Roving Commission".

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• At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family. My mother knit scarves for the neighborhood kids. My father helped Caleb with his homework. There was a fire in the fireplace and peace in my heart, as I was doing exactly what I was supposed to be doing, and everything was quiet. I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained; this is free.

  Veronica Roth

  Mother, Hurt, Father

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• How often you are irresistibly drawn to a plain, unassuming woman, whose soft silvery tones render her positively attractive! In the social circle, how pleasant it is to hear a woman talk in that low key which always characterizes the true lady. In the sanctuary of home, how such a voice soothes the fretful child and cheers the weary husband!

  Charles Lamb

  Cheer, Children, Husband

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• Pleasant is the recollection of dangers past.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Past, Danger, Recollection

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• If I am mistaken in my opinion that the human soul is immortal, I willingly err; nor would I have this pleasant error extorted from me; and if, as some minute philosophers suppose, death should deprive me of my being, I need not fear the raillery of those pretended philosophers when they are no more.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Errors, Soul, Needs

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• There are three things that are the motives of choice and three that are the motives of avoidance; namely, the noble, the expedient, and the pleasant, and their opposites, the base, the harmful, and the painful. Now in respect of all these the good man is likely to go right and the bad to go wrong, but especially in respect of pleasure; for pleasure is common to man with the lower animals, and also it is a concomitant of all the objects of choice, since both the noble and the expedient appear to us pleasant.

  Aristotle

  Animal, Men, Opposites

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• In the human species at all events there is a great diversity of pleasures. The same things delight some men and annoy others, and things painful and disgusting to some are pleasant and attractive to others.

  Aristotle

  Men, Diversity, Events

  Aristotle (1934). “The Nicomachean ethics”

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• Nor need it cause surprise that things disagreeable to the good man should seem pleasant to some men; for mankind is liable to many corruptions and diseases, and the things in question are not really pleasant, but only pleasant to these particular persons, who are in a condition to think them so.

  Aristotle

  Men, Thinking, Good Man

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.271, Wordsworth Editions

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• It is not advisable for persons who are in the early stages of meditation to mediate on the two lower chakras. You will unleash powers and forces that will throw you into very powerful altered state of consciousness that might not be pleasant at all.

  Frederick Lenz

  Powerful, Buddhism, Chakra Meditation

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• Spring flew swiftly by, and summer came; and if the village had been beautiful at first, it was now in the full glow and luxuriance of its richness. The great trees, which had looked shrunken and bare in the earlier months, had now burst into strong life and health; and stretching forth their green arms over the thirsty ground, converted open and naked spots into choice nooks, where was a deep and pleasant shade from which to look upon the wide prospect, steeped in sunshine, which lay stretched out beyond.

  Charles Dickens

  Beautiful, Summer, Strong

  Charles Dickens, George Cruikshank (1838). “Oliver Twist: Or, The Parish Boy's Progress”

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• My home is a happy place to be. I bless everyone who enters, myself included. Pleasant experiences fill every room.

  Louise Hay

  Home, Rooms, Bless

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• Outside the windows the day was bright: golden sunshine, blue sky, pleasant wind . . . I wanted to punch the happy day in the face, grab it by the hair, and beat it until it told me what the hell it was so happy about.

  Ilona Andrews

  Sunshine, Hair, Blue

  Ilona Andrews (2013). “Magic Rises: A Kate Daniels Novel”, p.125, Penguin

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• The almost universal gift everyone can develop is the creation of a pleasant disposition, an even temperament.

  L. Tom Perry

  Creation, Disposition, Temperament

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My first experience in the Netherlands was very pleasant, extremely pleasant. I mean, I got my residence permit, refugee status, within four weeks of arrival. People treated me extremely well.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Mean, People, Netherlands

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• Yes, you have cancer. Yes, your kids are on drugs. Yes, there is an elephant outside your tent. Now the question becomes, What are you going to do about it? Subsequent emotions may not be pleasant, but the hysteria stops. Hysteria accompanies an unwillingness to look at what is really going on; it promotes an unwillingness to look. We feel we are afraid to look, when actually it is not-looking that makes us afraid. The minute we look, we cease being afraid.

  Michael Crichton

  Cancer, Kids, Elephants

  Michael Crichton (2012). “Travels”, p.219, Vintage

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• A man does not buy his wife a fur coat to keep her warm, but to keep her pleasant.

  Seymour Hicks

  Sex, Men, Wife

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• When you're running for president, you're a guest in the living room for four years. And if people don't think you're going to be around the living room as a pleasant experience, they're not going to vote for you even if they agree with you.

  David Brooks

  Running, Thinking, Years

  "Week In Politics: Hillary Clinton's Upcoming Announcement, Rand Paul's Remarks". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. April 10, 2015.

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• If you run your business fairly; if you treat people well; if you try to move your business into areas that are making a real positive difference to other peoples lives; I think you'll A. have much pleasant life, but B. I think you'll have a much more successful business.

  Richard Branson

  Running, Real, Moving

  Interview with Jeremy Hobson, www.marketplace.org. April 27, 2012.

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