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{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = It is happy for you that you possess the talent of pleasing with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are the result of previous study? Jane Austen—Pride and Prejudice. Ch.XIV. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Lyttleton) | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Pleasure | page = 600 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 5 | text = Pleasures he thickest where no pleasures seem; There's not a leaf that falls upon the ground But holds some joy of silence or of sound, Some sprite begotten of a summer dream. BLANCHARiH-/Sonnet VII. Hidden. Joys. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Pleasure | page = 600 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways. Nicholas Boileau-Despreaux—The Art of Poetry. Canto III. L. 374. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Pleasure | page = 600 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = But pleasures are like poppies spread; You seize the flower, its bloom is shed. Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white—then melts forever. Burns—Tarn o' Shunter. L. 59. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Tagore) g The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business. Aaron Burr—Letter to Pichon. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Pleasure | page = 600 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated as to cheat. Butler—Hudibras. Pt. II. Canto III. L. 1. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Pleasure | page = 600 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society where none intrudes By the deep Sea, and music in its roar. Byron—Childe Harold. Canto IV. St. 178. if Ludendj etiam est quidam modus retinendus, ut ne nimis omnia profundamus, elatique voluptate in aliquam turpitudinem delabamur. In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not devote ourselves to a fife of pleasure and thence fall into immorality. CiCEBO—De Officiis. I. 29. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Pleasure | page = 600 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Omnibus in rebus voluptatibus maximis fastidium finitimum est. In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures. Cicero—De Oratore. III. 25. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Pleasure | page = 600 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Voluptas mentis (ut ita dicam) pra;stringit oculos, nee habet ullum cum virtute commercium. Pleasure blinds (so to speak) the eyes of the mind, and has no fellowship with virtue. Cicero—De Senectute. XII. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Pleasure | page = 600 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Divine Plato escam malorum appeliat voluptatem, quod ea videlicet homines capiantur, ut pisces hamo. Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook. Cicero—De Senectute. XIII. 44. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Pleasure | page = 600 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 15 | text = Who pleases one against his will. Congreve—The Way of the World. Epilogue. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Pleasure | page = 600 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = That, though on pleasure she was bent, She had a frugal mind. | author = Cowper | work = History of John Gilpin. St. 8. | place = | note = | topic = Pleasure | page = 600 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Pleasure admitted in undue degree Enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free. | author = Cowper | work = Progress of Error. L. 267. | place = | note = | topic = Pleasure | page = 600 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 15 | text = Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure, Sweet is pleasure after pain. Dryden—Alexander's Feast. L. 58. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Horace, Meredith, Spenser}}) | topic = Pleasure | page = 600 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Men may scoff, and men may pray, But they pay Every pleasure with a pain. Henley—Ballade of Truisms. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Pleasure | page = 600 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Follow pleasure, and then will pleasure flee. Flee pleasure, and pleasure will follow thee. Heywood—Proverbs. Pt. I. Ch. X. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Pleasure | page = 600 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Ficta voluptatis causa sint proxima veris. Let the fictitious sources of pleasure be as near as possible to the true. Horace—Ars Poetica. 338. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Pleasure | page = 600 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Sperne Mphiptates; nocet empta dolore voluptas. Despise pleasure; pleasure bought by pain is injurious. Horace—Epistles. I. 2. 55. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Pleasure | page = 600 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Vivo et regno, simul ista reliqui Quse vos ad ccelum effertis rumore secundo. I live and reign since I have abandoned those pleasures which you by your praises extol to the skies. Horace—Epistles. I. 10. 8. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Pleasure | page = 600 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = I fly from pleasure, because pleasure has ceased to please: I am lonely because I am miserable. | author = Samuel Johnson | work = Basselas. Ch. III. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Pleasure | page = 600 }}