OEMS OF THOUGHT
PLEASURE. The most delicate, the most sensible of all pleasures, consists in promoting the pleasure of others.—Bruyere. ■ Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.—Samuel Johnson. A life merely of pleasure, or chiefly of pleasure, is always a poor and worthless life, not worth the living; always unsatisfactory in its course, always miserable in its end. —Theodore Parker.
False pleasure will be, is, chastened; it has no right to be at peace.—Mary Baker Eddy.
The pursuit in which we can not ask God’s protection must be criminal; the pleasure for which we dare not thank Him cannot be innocent. —Richard Fuller.
He who can at all times sacrifice pleasure to duty approaches sublimity. —Lavater.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 August 1942, Page 4
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