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Letter "E" » enjoyment
«The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.»
Author: Aleister Crowley
| Keywords:
attainable, continual, energies, enjoyment, exercise, ideal, Joy of, life eternal, set up, The Eternal
«The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.»
«True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united»
«Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in your Father's palace; and look upon the skies, the earth, and the air as celestial joys: having such a reverend esteem of all, as if you were among the angels.»
Author: Thomas Traherne
(Mystic, Poet)
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celestial, enjoyment, look upon, palace, Reverend, skies, The Angels
«The test of an enjoyment is the remembrance which it leaves behind»
Author: Jean Paul Richter
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
behind, enjoyment, leaves, remembrance, remembrances, test, The test
«The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.»
Author: Walter Benjamin
(Essayist, Theologian, Writer)
| Keywords:
art form, aversion, aversions, conventional, criticized, decrease, decreased, decreases, decreasing, distinction, enjoyed, enjoyment, sharper, significance, The Social, uncritically
«You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin, and even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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birds, certain, credulity, enjoyment, flowering tree, flowers, free, helps, ignorance, margin, margins, must not, precise, scientific, these, too much, trees, vagueness, watercraft
«We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment from a contrast and very little from a state of things.»
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