A Quote by Roswell Dwight Hitchcock

Pleasure is far sweeter as a recreation than a business.

Roswell Dwight Hitchcock

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Roswell Dwight Hitchcock
August 15, 1817 - June 16, 1887

The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Things temporal are sweeter in the expectation, things eternal are sweeter in the fruition; the first shames thy hope, the second crowns it; it is a vain journey, whose end affords less pleasure than the way.

Francis Quarles

Sorrow, terror, anguish, despair itself are often the chosen expressions of an approximation to the highest good. Our sympathy in tragic fiction depends on this principle; tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain. This is the source also of the melancholy which is inseparable from the sweetest melody. The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

There is no sweeter pleasure than to surprise a man by giving him more than he hopes for.

Charles Baudelaire

We Americans are a funny people. We say that our favorite outdoor recreation is 'walking for pleasure' (or so it is reported in Outdoor Recreation Trends). Yet the average housewife will jump into the family car-or one of them-to go around the corner for a bottle of aspirin and a television guide. The businessman who walks four blocks to an appointment is the exception rather than the rule.

Stewart Udall

In the end, madness is worse than injustice, and justice far sweeter than freedom.

Hisham Matar

I can imagine no sweeter way to end one's life than in the quiet of the country, out of the mad race for money, place and power - far from the demands of business - out of the dusty highway where fools struggle and strive for the hollow praise of other fools.

Robert Green Ingersoll

It [revenge] is sweeter far than flowing honey.

Homer

Ah! How sweet coffee tastes! Lovelier than a thousand kisses, sweeter far than muscatel wine!

Johann Sebastian Bach

The breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air than in the hand.

Francis Bacon

Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.

John Dryden

Make thy recreation servant to thy business, lest thou become a slave to thy recreation.

Francis Quarles

Grace does not demonize our desires nor destroy them nor lead us to deny them. Grace is the work of the Holy Spirit in transforming our desires so that knowing Jesus becomes sweeter than illicit sex, sweeter than money and what it can buy, sweeter than every fruitless joy. Grace is God satisfying our souls with His Son so that we're ruined for anything else!