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The human mind is often, and I think it is for the most part, in a state neither of pain nor pleasure, which I call a state of indifference.

By Edmund Burke

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#fear, #human-mind, #indifference, #mental-state, #pleasure

If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

By E.B. White

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#activism, #humor, #life, #pleasure

The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without sacrifice. Politics without principle. From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.

By Frederick Lewis Donaldson

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#character, #commerce, #conscience, #happiness, #humanity, #knowledge, #misattributed-to-gandhi, #money, #morality, #pleasure, #politics, #principle, #sacrifice, #science, #sin, #sins, #wealth, #work, #worship

Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.

By John Lubbock

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#education, #enlightenment, #happiness, #learning, #life, #nature-art, #pleasure, #purity, #science, #training

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