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There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
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There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society where none intrudes
By the deep Sea, and music in its roar.
Despise pleasure; pleasure bought by pain in injurious.
[Lat., Sperne voluptates; nocet empta dolora voluptas.]
Despise pleasure; pleasure bought by pain in injurious.
[Lat., Sperne voluptates; nocet empta dolora voluptas.]
Pleasure blinds (so to speak) the eyes of the mind, and has no
fellowship with virtue.
[Lat., Voluptas read more
Pleasure blinds (so to speak) the eyes of the mind, and has no
fellowship with virtue.
[Lat., Voluptas mentis (ut ita dicam) praestringit oculos, nec
habet ullum cum virtute commercium.]
With the catching ends the pleasure of the chase
With the catching ends the pleasure of the chase
Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.
Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
Anticipation makes the pleasure.
Anticipation makes the pleasure.
I fly from pleasure, because pleasure has ceased to please: I am
lonely because I am miserable.
I fly from pleasure, because pleasure has ceased to please: I am
lonely because I am miserable.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.