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• All acts of love and pleasure are my rituals.
• Remote from man, with God he passed the days; Prayer all his business, all his pleasure praise.
  -- Thomas Parnell (1679-1717) -- The Hermit, Line 5...
• Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret.
• I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.
  -- Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866)...
• And hie him home, at evening's close, To sweet repast and calm repose.
  -- Thomas Gray (1716-1771) -- Ode on the Pleasure arising from Vicissitude, Line 87...
• The hues of bliss more brightly glow, Chastised by sabler tints of woe.
  -- Thomas Gray (1716-1771) -- Ode on the Pleasure arising from Vicissitude, Line 45...
• Boy, get your head out of the stars above, You get the maximum pleasure from a minimum of love.
  Save your heart and let your body be enough, To get the maximum pleasure from a minimum of love....
• The love of study, a passion which derives fresh vigor from enjoyment, supplies each day and hour with a perpetual source of independent and rational pleasure.
  --Gibbon (1737-1794)...
• Fly not yet; 't is just the hour When pleasure, like the midnight flower That scorns the eye of vulgar light, Begins to bloom for sons of night And maids who love the moon.
  -- Thomas Moore (1779-1852) -- Fly not ye...