Pleasant Quotes - Page 34

• I got really excited about Beyoncé, but it was Beyoncé. I think I was more in awe of how pleasant she is.

  Ester Dean

  Thinking, Excited, Awe

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• At the approach of danger two voices speak with equal force in the heart of man: one very reasonably tells the man to consider the nature of the danger and the means of avoiding it and the other, even more reasonable, says that it is too painful and harassing to think of the danger... better to turn aside from the painful subject till it has come, and to think of what is pleasant. In solitude a man generally yields to the first voice; in society to the second.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Mean, Heart, Men

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• Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense now and then is pleasant. [Lat., Misce stultitiam consiliis brevem: Dulce est desipere in loco.

  Horace

  Littles, Nonsense, Now And Then

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• Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Pleasure, Pleasant Things

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• I know it is more agreeable to walk upon carpets than to lie upon dungeon floors, I know it is pleasant to have all the comforts and luxuries of civilization; but he who cares only for these things is worth no more than a butterfly, contented and thoughtless, upon a morning flower; and who ever thought of rearing a tombstone to a last summer's butterfly?

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Summer, Morning, Tombstone

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.98

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• Stories now, to suit a public taste, must be half epigram, half pleasant vice.

  James Russell Lowell

  Vices, Stories, Half

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• We find the Works of Nature still more pleasant, the more they resemble those of art.

  Joseph Addison

  Art, Nature, Stills

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd (1811). “The Works: In Six Volumes”, p.348

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• It is essential... that discipline should not be practised like a rule imposed on oneself from the outside, but that it becomes an expression of one's own will; that it is felt as pleasant, and that one slowly accustoms oneself to a kind of behaviour which one would eventually miss, if one stopped practising it.

  Erich Fromm

  Expression, Discipline, Missing

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• For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Work, Said, Accomplished

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• These (literary) studies are the food of youth, and consolation of age; they adorn prosperity, and are the comfort and refuge of adversity; they are pleasant at home, and are no incumbrance abroad; they accompany us at night, in our travels, and in our rural retreats.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Adversity, Home, Night

  "Oratio Pro Licinio Archia", VII, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 757,

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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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