| Mind unemployed is mind unenjoyed. -- Christian Nestell Bovee |
| Author:
Bovee, Christian NestellEra:
1820 |
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| He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself his own dungeon. -- John Milton |
| Author:
Milton, JohnEra:
1608 |
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| This world is all a fleeting show, For man's illusion given; The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, Deceitful shine, deceitful flow, - There's nothing true but Heaven. -- Thomas Moore |
| Author:
Moore, ThomasEra:
1779 |
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| Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it. -- William Temple |
| Author:
Temple, WilliamEra:
1628 |
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| joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| Author:
Longfellow, Henry WadsworthEra:
1807 |
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| Know thou the self (spirit) as riding in a chariot, The body as the chariot. Know thou the intellect as the chariot-driver, And the mind as the reins. The senses, they say, are the horses; The objects of sense, what they range over. The self combined with senses and mind Wise men call "the enjoyer." -- Upanishads |
| Author:
UpanishadsEra:
-800 |
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| How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy! -- Robert Browning |
| Author:
Browning, RobertEra:
1812 |
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| Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society. -- Thomas Jefferson |
| Author:
Jefferson, ThomasEra:
1743 |
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| There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know. -- Tupper |
| Author:
TupperEra:
1810 |
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| You purchase pain with all that joy can give, and die of nothing but a rage to live. -- Alexander Pope |
| Author:
Pope, AlexanderEra:
1688 |
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| Labour not after riches first, and think thou afterwards wilt enjoy them. He who neglecteth the present moment, throweth away all that he hath. As the arrow passeth through the heart, while the warrior knew not that it was coming; so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it. -- Akhenaton |
| Author:
AkhenatonEra:
-1375 |
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| No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it. -- Seneca |
| Author:
SenecaEra:
-4 |
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| The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature. -- William Hazlitt |
| Author:
Hazlitt, WilliamEra:
1778 |
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| When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it. -- Lord Byron |
| Author:
Byron, LordEra:
1788 |
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| I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| Author:
Longfellow, Henry WadsworthEra:
1807 |
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| There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go. -- Frederick Faber |
| Author:
Faber, FrederickEra:
1814 |
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| All human joys are swift of wing, for heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing, you find you haven't got it. -- Eugene Field |
| Author:
Field, EugeneEra:
1850 |
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| A country can get more real joy out of just hollering for their freedom than they can if they get it. -- Will Rogers |
| Author:
Rogers, WillEra:
1879 |
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| Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it. -- Benjamin Franklin |
| Author:
Franklin, BenjaminEra:
1706 |
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| Love begets love. This torment is my joy. -- Theodore Roethke |
| Author:
Roethke, TheodoreEra:
1908 |
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| Reflection is the business of man; a sense of his state is his first duty: but who remembereth himself in joy? Is it not in mercy then that sorrow is allotted unto us? -- Akhenaton |
| Author:
AkhenatonEra:
-1375 |
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| If thou wouldst preserve understanding and health to old age, avoid the allurements of Voluptuousness, and fly from her temptations...For if thou hearkenest unto the words of the Adversary, thou art deceived and betrayed. The joy which she promiseth changeth to madness, and her enjoyments lead on to diseases and death. -- Akhenaton |
| Author:
AkhenatonEra:
-1375 |
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| The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much. -- William Hazlitt |
| Author:
Hazlitt, WilliamEra:
1778 |
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| Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy. -- The Dhammapada |
| Author:
Dhammapada, TheEra:
-300 |
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| Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity. -- Horace Mann |
| Author:
Mann, HoraceEra:
1796 |
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| Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change. -- Bertrand Russell |
| Author:
Russell, BertrandEra:
1872 |
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| To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him. -- Buddha |
| Author:
BuddhaEra:
-568 |
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| Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day. -- Lord Chesterfield |
| Author:
Chesterfield, LordEra:
1694 |
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| Be humble as the blade of grass that is being trodden underneath the feet. The little ant tastes joyously the sweetness of honey and sugar. The mighty elephant trembles in pain under the agony of sharp goad. -- Sivananda |
| Author:
SivanandaEra:
1887 |
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| Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments. -- Samuel Johnson |
| Author:
Johnson, SamuelEra:
1709 |
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