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enjoyments
«He who has not forgiven an enemy has not yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life»
Author: Johann Kaspar Lavater
(Theologian)
| About:
Enemies
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enjoyments, forgiven, sublime, tasted
«In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure but I have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself and others of innocent enjoyments.»
Author: Rutherford B. Hayes
(President, Statesman)
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and others, deprived, enjoyments, Not sure, unnecessarily
«Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.»
«Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
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aristocracy, banal, cling, cling to, corpse, corrupt, devote, enjoyments, gnawing, gnaws, host, passionate, petty, worms, wretchedly
«Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| About:
Habit
| Keywords:
converts, daily, dull, enjoyments, luxurious, necessities
«Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and of our miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant, of interest, easy, and where both meet, happy. A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and,»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
| About:
Happiness,
Love,
Marriage,
Misery,
Relationships
| Keywords:
enjoyments, enlarges, miseries, scene
«As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.»
Author: Jean Paul Richter
(Novelist)
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concealed, enjoyments, enlarge, formerly, prospect, regions, The Coming, to enlarge
«As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity, I collected some of their Proverbs, thinking that as the sayings used in a nation mark its character, so the Proverbs of Hell show the nature of Infernal wisdom better than any description of buildings or garments.»