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"All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation."
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"As this world was not intended to be a state of any great satisfaction or high enjoyment, so neither was it intended to be a mere scene of unhappiness and sorrow."
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"Enjoy the rainbow while it lasts and don't chase it when it's gone."
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"But the delights of solitude don't only consist of dreaming. Next in enjoyment, I think, comes planning."
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"I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?"
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"It is sometimes but the mere hope for enjoyment that allows one to enjoy something, even when he is not really enjoying it at the moment."
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"It is a common temptation of Satan to make us give up the reading of the Word and prayer when our enjoyment is gone; as if it were of no use to read the Scriptures when we do not enjoy them, and as if it were no use to pray when we have no spirit of prayer."
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"I love and enjoy every moment. Is there anything more beautiful that I could do with that moment?"
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"Life is fun."
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"All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation."
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"It's very silly, she said, "but I go on with it in spite of myself. I'm afraid I'm too easily pleased; no novel is so silly I can't read it."
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"A good historian is timeless; although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect."
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"All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers."
Men
"Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves."
Children
"There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true."
Happiness
"Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies."
Nothing
"All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation."
Enjoyment
"Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind."
Virtue
"Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure."
Thought
"Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half."
Soul
"Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others."
Complaint
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