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Variety is the soul of pleasure.


Aphra Behn

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VIRGINIA WOOLF The great source of pleasure is variety
SAMUEL JOHNSON Faith, sir, we are here today, and gone tomorrow.
APHRA BEHN Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret.
APHRA BEHN He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet.
APHRA BEHN That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend an...
APHRA BEHN One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on.
APHRA BEHN Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of je...
APHRA BEHN Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
APHRA BEHN Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.
APHRA BEHN There is no sinner like a young saint.
APHRA BEHN Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
APHRA BEHN Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
APHRA BEHN Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
APHRA BEHN Patience is a flatterer, sir and an ass, sir
APHRA BEHN No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.
APHRA BEHN Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.
APHRA BEHN Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life
APHRA BEHN Oh, what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour!
APHRA BEHN That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend an...
APHRA BEHN All I ask, is the privilege for my masculine part the poet in me. . . . If I must not, because of my...
APHRA BEHN Here lies a Proof that Wit can never be
Defence enough against Mortality
APHRA BEHN He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet
APHRA BEHN Come away; poverty's catching
APHRA BEHN That perfect tranquility of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and...
APHRA BEHN The variety of all things forms a pleasure.
EURIPIDES Gratification of your soul is the only real pleasure of life. this outer man is just a soldier in th...
ARVIND YADAV No pleasure endures unseasoned by variety.
SYRUS (PUBLILIUS SYRUS) No pleasure endures unseasoned by variety
PUBLILIUS SYRUS The pleasure of sins is pain in the soul.
LAILAH GIFTY, AKITA Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER Variety in mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something s.
JEAN PAUL The sweet pleasure of prayer, the grace of the soul.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA As long as one is involved in worldly interactions, there is pleasure of the mind; and after knowing...
DADA BHAGWAN Hey you the "Supreme Power Within Myself" uplift my soul that I make no more mistakes and patiently ...
NEHA KOTHARI If death is all about parting with body then immortality is about being dead when alive.
AKSHMALA SHARMA Labour is blossoming or dancing where
The body is not bruised to pleasure soul.
W.B. YEATS For two thousand years or more man has been subjected to a systematic effort to transform him into a...
NORMAN O. BROWN So, often in the courseOf life's few fleeting years,A single pleasure costsThe soul a thousand tears...
FRANCIS WILLIAM BOURDILLON Their pleasures are fierce and their sleep impenetrable. And they know that the body has a soul in w...
ALBERT CAMUS Yet if thou didst but know how little wit governs this mighty universe.
MRS. APHRA JOHNSON BEHN If things on earth may be to heaven resembled, It must be love, pure, constant, undissembled.
MRS. APHRA JOHNSON BEHN Cinema is an old whore, like circus and variety, who knows how to give many kinds of pleasure. Besid...
FEDERICO FELLINI A pool just isn't the same as the ocean. It has no energy. No life.
LINDA GERBER For variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something. [Ger., Weil Versch...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER If the promised final future is simply that immortal souls will have left behind their mortal bodies...
N.T. WRIGHT God cannot and will not give us a sense of lasting pleasure apart from him, because it violates his ...
KYLE IDLEMAN Enlightenment arrives like a thief in the middle of the dark night of the soul.
STEFAN EMUNDS Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. Oftentimes in denying yourself pleasure you do but store the desire in the recesses of your being. KAHLIL GIBRAN If the soul is immortal then it is one with the Godhead.
N. K. DAVID And the weak soul, within itself unbless'd, Leans for all pleasure on another's breast.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH The secret of life is not in the Die And Live,
The secret of life is Don't ever lose your sense...
SUSHIL SINGH Pain Is Caused By Pleasure
SULLY ERNA The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY The doctors cannot make the ignorant think, cannot hope to bring home the sufferings of millions; on...
RADCLYFFE HALL When unity of the mind, speech and body occurs, God has called that the ‘foremost’ religion. If ...
DADA BHAGWAN The secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is kno...
DANIEL GILBERT The human flesh exhibits itself in a variety of ways,for it is a strong lover of variety.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Few things in life can spark and radiate strong pleasure, intense feelings, and touch the main nerve...
ELLIS HADLOCK If there is pain, use it as an awareness, as meditation, as a sharpening of the soul. And when pleas...
BHAGWAN SHREE RAJNEESH Variety is the condition of harmony.
THOMAS CARLYLE Variety is the spice of life
AMERICAN PROVERB The secret of my success is my hairspray.
RICHARD GERE Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the criti...
HAROLD PINTER The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There is no darkness but ignorance.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To do a great right do a little wrong.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Listen to many, speak to a few.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE This above all; to thine own self be true.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Time and the hour run through the roughest day.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shir...
JOHN HEYWOOD Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.
JOHN HEYWOOD Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?
JOHN HEYWOOD When all candles be out, all cats be grey.
JOHN HEYWOOD Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar.
JOHN CIARDI It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad y...
JOHN CIARDI What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks ...
JOHN CIARDI Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it!
JOHN CIARDI A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.
JOHN CIARDI Poetry lies its way to the truth.
JOHN CIARDI Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.
JOHN CIARDI Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.
JOHN CIARDI The day will happen whether or not you get up.
JOHN CIARDI You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
JOHN CIARDI Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they hav...
JOHN CIARDI The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it.
JOHN CIARDI

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APHRA BEHN That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend an...
APHRA BEHN One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on.
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APHRA BEHN Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
APHRA BEHN Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.
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APHRA BEHN Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
APHRA BEHN Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
APHRA BEHN Patience is a flatterer, sir and an ass, sir
APHRA BEHN No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.
APHRA BEHN Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.
APHRA BEHN Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life
APHRA BEHN Oh, what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour!
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