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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