Man was
made to enjoy as well as labor, and the state of society should be
adapted to this principle of human nature.--CHANNING.
Mental pleasures never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are
increased by repetition, approved of by reflection, and strengthened
by enjoyment.--COLTON.
I should rejoice if my pleasures were as pleasing to God as they are
to myself.--MARGUERITE DE VALOIS.
We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.
--J. PETIT-SENN.
Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet
and tranquillity of thy life.--JEREMY TAYLOR.
POETRY.--True poetry, like the religious prompting itself, springs
from the emotional side of a man's complex nature, and is ever in
harmony with his highest intuitions and aspirations.--EPES SARGENT.
Then, rising with aurora's light,
The muse invoked, sit down to write;
Blot out, correct, insert, refine,
Enlarge, diminish, interline;
Be mindful, when invention fails,
To scratch your head and bite your nails.
--SWIFT.
It is uninspired inspiration.--HENRY REED.
Poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human
thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.--COLERIDGE.
Blessings be with them, and eternal praise,
Who gave us nobler loves and nobler cares,
The poets, who on earth have made us heirs
Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays!
--WORDSWORTH.
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