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enjoyments
«There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state to another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.»
Author: Alexandre Dumas
(Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Death,
Happiness,
Life,
Misery,
Revenge
| Keywords:
comparison, comparisons, enjoyments
«This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God.»
Author: William Law
| Keywords:
conformed, conforming, conforms, devotion, enjoyments, heavenly, holiness, piety, temper, turning, universal, worldly
«The love of money as a possession - as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life - will be recognized for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity, one of those semi-criminal, semi-pathological propens»
Author: John Maynard Keynes
| About:
Money,
Possessions
| Keywords:
disgusting, enjoyments, morbidity, pathological
«Time was with most of us, when Christmas Day, encircling all our limited world like a magic ring, left nothing out for us to miss or seek; bound together all our home enjoyments, affections, and hopes; grouped everything and everyone round the Christ»
Author: Charles Dickens
| About:
Christmas,
Family love,
Religious love
| Keywords:
affections, Christmas Day, encircle, encircled, encircles, encircling, enjoyments, grouped
«The mind has become attached to the pleasures of houses, palaces, horses and other enjoyments. The Lord God does not even enter his thoughts; how can he be saved, O my Lord King?»
«There is nothing beyond God, and the sense enjoyments are simply something through which we are passing now in the hope of getting better things.»
«Our notions with respect to the importance of life, and our attachment to it, depend on a principle which has very little to do with its happiness or its misery. . . . The love of life is, in general, the effect not of our enjoyments, but of our passions.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| Keywords:
attachment, enjoyments, General The, notions, respect to, with respect to