"Pleasures can undo a man at any time, if yielded to."

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Source : Owen Feltham (1840). “Resolves: divine, moral and political”, p.2

Owen Feltham

#Men Quotes #Pleasure Quotes

“The principle that the end justifies the means is and remains the only rule of political ethics; anything else is just a vague chatter and melts away between oneâ€™s fingers.”
“O Liberty, white Goddess! is it well to leave the gates unguarded? On thy breast fold Sorrow's children, soothe the hurts of Fate, lift the down-trodden, but with hand of steel stay those who to thy sacred portals come to waste the gifts of Freedom.”
“I do not think you can fault Abraham Lincoln for picking generals that did not work out, because, as he said to John Hay when he went back to George B. McClellan in the fall of 62, we have to work with what we have.”
“My studies have shown that the process of falling into mature love happens in four steps. When you meet a woman, you subconsciously look for cues that she's the kind os person you should be with. That's assumption. If she passes the assumption test, you begin to get to know her to find out if she's appropriate for you. If she is, you're attracted. If, as you get to know her, the attraction is reinforced with joy or pain or both, you'll fall into infatuation. And if you manage to make a connection and attach to each other during infatuation, you'll move into mature, unconditional love.”
“Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.”

Source : "Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid". Book by Daniel Handler, April 24, 2007.
“The anthropologist respects history, but he does not accord it a special value. He conceives it as a study complementary to his own: one of them unfurls the range of human societies in time, the other in space.”
“Because, life's too short, my friends. Let's squeeze in as many laughs as we can get.”

Source : Neil Pasricha (2010). “The Book of Awesome”, p.275, Penguin
“Everything you cherish Throws you over in the end Thorns will grab your ankles From the gardens that you tend.”

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