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• My life can be so arranged that I can live on whatever I have. If I cannot live as I have lived in the past, I shall live differently, and living differently does not mean living with less attention to the things that make life gracious and pleasant or with less enjoyment of things of the mind.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Mean, Past, Mind

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• Yet I will look upon thy face again, My own romantic Bronx, and it will be A face more pleasant than the face of men. Thy waves are old companions, I shall see A well remembered form in each old tree And hear a voice long loved in thy wild minstrelsy.

  Joseph Rodman Drake

  Men, Voice, Rivers

  Joseph Rodman Drake (1835). “The Culprit Fay: And Other Poems”, p.77

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• It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another.

  Lucretius

  Running, Views, Sea

  "De Rerum Natura". II. 1,

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• To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. The purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place to spend one's leisure.

  Joseph Joubert

  Education, Children, Parent

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• They tend to be civil servants, often diplomats drawn from the Foreign Office, who may be very pleasant, intelligent people, but once they get inside the Palace they're riveted to the status quo and they lose track of public opinion in the real world.

  Anthony Holden

  Real, Intelligent, Track

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• You have no idea how pleasant it is not to have any future. It's like having a totally efficient contraceptive.

  Anthony Burgess

  Future, Ideas, Efficient

  Anthony Burgess (2013). “Honey for the Bears”, p.187, W. W. Norton & Company

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• As I sat at the Cafe I said to myself, They may talk as they please about what they call pelf, They may sneer as they like about eating and drinking, But help it I cannot, I cannot help thinking How pleasant it is to have money, heigh-ho! How pleasant it is to have money!

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Money, Drinking, Thinking

  Arthur Hugh Clough, Francis Turner Palgrave (1862). “Poems”, p.45

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• Just as the good life is something beyond the pleasant life, the meaningful life is beyond the good life.

  Martin Seligman

  Meaningful, Good Life, Life Is

  Martin Seligman (2011). “Authentic Happiness”, p.20, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• The price we pay for our irresponsible explanatory urge is that we often spoil our most pleasant experiences by making good sense of them.

  Daniel Gilbert

  Pay, Pleasure, Spoil

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• Before creation, God did just pure mathematics. Then He thought it would be a pleasant change to do some applied.

  John Edensor Littlewood

  Would Be, Creation, Mathematics

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• Why should we break up Our snug and pleasant party? Time was made for slaves, But never for us so hearty.

  John Baldwin Buckstone

  Party, Slave, Break

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• Let this coming year be better than all the others. Vow to do some of the things you have always wanted to do but could not find the time. Call up a forgotten friend. Drop an old grudge, and replace it with some pleasant memories. Vow not to make a promise you do not think you can keep. Walk tall, and smile more. You will look 10 years younger. Do not be afraid to say, I love you. Say it again. They are the sweetest words in the world.

  Ann Landers

  New Year, Memories, Love You

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• To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Criticism, Important, President

  Theodore Roosevelt (1954). “1914-1919”

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• Children need directing and teaching what is right in a kind, affectionate manner How often we see parents demand obedience, good behavior, kind words, pleasant looks, a sweet voice and a bright eye from a child or children when they themselves are full of bitterness and scolding! How inconsistent and unreasonable this is!

  Brigham Young

  Sweet, Children, Teaching

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• The age which we live in is not suited to idle complacency or to pleasant dreams of past greatness.

  Vincent Massey

  Dream, Past, Greatness

  "Speaking Of Canada" by Vincent Massey. Address at the Convocation of the University of Manitoba, October 28, 1952, 1959.

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• Science which is acquired unwillingly, soon disappears; that which is instilled into the mind in a pleasant and agreeable manner, is more lasting.

  Saint Basil

  Mind, Disappear, Lasting

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• Do not feed children on a maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature. Let their souls drink in all that is pure and sweet. Rear them, if possible, amid pleasant surroundings ... Let nature teach them the lessons of good and proper living, combined with an abundance of well-balanced nourishment. Those children will grow to be the best men and women. Put the best in them by contact with the best outside. They will absorb it as a plant absorbs the sunshine and the dew.

  Luther Burbank

  Sweet, Children, Sunshine

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• It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance who knows what you know. I see so many new folks nowadays who seem to have neither past nor future. Conversation has got to have some root in the past, or else you have got to explain every remark you make, and it wears a person out.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Past, Roots, History

  Reader's Digest Vol. 130, 1987.

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• I tend to always carry a camera with me. I live next to a fire station, and I've got lots of photos of the hook and ladder coming out of the house. And I like food, so I tend to photograph wonderfully presented food all the time. To me those are very pleasant memories.

  Gordon Bell

  Memories, Fire, House

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• It pays no matter what comes after it, to try and do things, to accomplish things in this life and not merely to have a soft and pleasant time.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Trying, Pay, Matter

  Theodore Roosevelt (1951). “The years of preparation, 1868-1900”

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• I shall look forward to a pleasant time.

  John Hancock

  Looks, Famous Last Words, Last Words

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• Sometimes when you are with an enlightened teacher, you will feel both pleasant and unpleasant things magnified. That happens when you meditate with someone who goes into very strong states of altered consciousness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Strong, Sometimes

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• The reason for not going out and sinning all you like is the same as the reason for not going out and putting your nose in a slicing machine: its dumb, stupid, and no fun. Some individual sins may have pleasure still attached to them because of the residual goodness of the realities they are abusing: adultery can indeed be pleasant and tying one on can amuse. But betrayal, jealousy, love grown cold, and the gray dawn of the morning after are nobody's idea of a good time.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Morning, Fun, Betrayal

  Robert Farrar Capon (2002). “Kingdom, Grace, Judgment: Paradox, Outrage, and Vindication in the Parables of Jesus”, p.253, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Men are very easy to get along with- they just want to come home to something pleasant.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Women, Home, Want

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• It was pleasant to me to get a letter from you the other day. Perhaps I should have found it pleasanter if I had been able to decipher it. I don't think that I mastered anything beyond the date (which I knew) and the signature (which I guessed at). There's a singular and a perpetual charm in a letter of yours; it never grows old, it never loses its novelty. Other letters are read and thrown away and forgotten, but yours are kept forever - unread. One of them will last a reasonable man a lifetime.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Humorous, Thinking, Men

  Letter to Professor E.S. Morse, Science, Volume 15, 1890.

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