Jane Austen: ...why did we wait for any thing? — why not seize the pleasure at once? — How often is happiness destroyed by preparatio

...why did we wait for any thing? — why not seize the pleasure at once? — How of — Jane Austen

...why did we wait for any thing? — why not seize the pleasure at once? — How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

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Surprizes are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenienc — Jane Austen
One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been — Jane Austen
You will have a great deal of unreserved discourse with Mrs. K., I dare say, upo — Jane Austen
Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does. — Jane Austen
What! out of senseless Nothing to provoke A conscious Something to resent the yo — Omar Khayyám
The majority of mankind and people who lack refinement conceive it to be pleasur — Aristotle
The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some law — Miguel de Cervantes
He who does not give himself leisure to be thirsty cannot take pleasure in drink — Michel de Montaigne
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves. — Henry David Thoreau
Wij leven allen, maar weten niet waarom en waarvoor, wij leven allen met het doe — We're all alive
Oh! how foul a thing, that we should see the tongue of one animal in the guts of — Leonardo da Vinci
The Soul is not composed of any materials. It is unity indivisible. Therefore it — Swami Vivekananda