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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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Personal Development

"Enjoy the rainbow while it lasts and don't chase it when it's gone."
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Personal Development

"But the delights of solitude don't only consist of dreaming. Next in enjoyment, I think, comes planning."
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Personal Development

"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 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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Personal Development

"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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"How we think is so important. There has to be a time when we stop just dealing with life and think about enjoying it."
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Personal Development

"The lesson adults can learn here is that the world is filled with things for our enjoyment."
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"Life is delicious. Waste not one bite!"
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Personal Development

"Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man."
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"There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey."
People

"Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make."
Help

"How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?"
People

"The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque."
Art

"There is no wealth but life."
Life

"The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it."
Strength

"Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons."
Being

"To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also."
Thought

"It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us."
Poetry

"It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled."
Life
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