"Where your pleasure is, there is your..." - Quote by Saint Augustine
Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness
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“Really great things, when discussed by little men, can usually make such men grow big.”
“When the king asked him what he meant by infesting the sea, the pirate defiantly replied:The same as you do when you infest the whole world;but because I do it with a little ship I am called a robber,and because you do it with a great fleet, you are an emperor.”
“It is the function of perfection to make one know one's imperfection.”
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“I am thankful for small mercies. I compared notes with one of my friends who expect everything of the universe, and is disappointed when anything is less than the best, and I found that I begin at the other extreme, expecting nothing, and am always full of thanks for moderate good. . . . If we will take the good we find, . . . we shall have heaping measures. . . .”
“Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.”
“If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.”
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“Say, what abridgement have you for this evening?What masque, what music? How shall we beguileThe lazy time if not with some delight?”
“For of all gainful professions, nothing is better, nothing more pleasing, nothing more delightful, nothing better becomes a well-bred man than # agriculture”
“Our passions are not too strong, they are too weak. We are far too easily pleased.”