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If your capacity to acquire has outstripped your capacity to enjoy, you are on the way to the scrap-heap.
If your capacity to acquire has outstripped your capacity to enjoy, you are on the way to the scrap-heap.
Who can enjoy alone?
Or all enjoying what contentment find?
Who can enjoy alone?
Or all enjoying what contentment find?
The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the read more
The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.
I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be
described.
[Fr., Je l'ai toujours dit read more
I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be
described.
[Fr., Je l'ai toujours dit et senti, la veritable jouissance ne
se decrit point.]
True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.
True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.
How could I, blest with thee, long nights employ;
And how with the longest day enjoy!
[Lat., read more
How could I, blest with thee, long nights employ;
And how with the longest day enjoy!
[Lat., Quam vellem longas tecum requiescere noctes,
Et tecum longos pervigilare dies.]
Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest,
Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best.
Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest,
Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best.
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are
ways and means of compounding such matters.
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are
ways and means of compounding such matters.
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do.
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do.
