Quotes by Samuel Johnson about Pleasure

8 quotes by Samuel Johnson about pleasure

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If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

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Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we...

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

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The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure,...

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The natural flights of the human mind are not from...

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

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When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not...

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

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The beautiful spring came, and when nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also. Spring will come and so will happiness. Hold on. Life will get warmer. Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil. Blossom by blossom the spring begins.

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If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life. Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms. We moved over to Silver Spring, actually near University Park. The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

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