“Life admits not of delays; when pleasure can be had, it is fit to catch it. Every hour takes away part of the things that please us, and perhaps part of our disposition to be pleased.”
September 1, 1777
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III
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“Please, catch for us the foxes in the vineyard… the little foxes.”
The Soviet.
Catch For Us The Foxes (2004)
Variant: Let us think often that our only business in this life is to please God. Perhaps all besides is but folly and vanity.
Source: The Practice of the Presence of God
The Masterplan, released 30 October 1995
B-sides released by Oasis
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“Away with false fashion, so calm and so chill,
Where pleasure itself cannot please”
Nature's Nobleman (1844)
Context: Away with false fashion, so calm and so chill,
Where pleasure itself cannot please;
Away with cold breeding, that faithlessly still
Affects to be quite at its ease;
For the deepest in feeling is highest in rank,
The freest is first of the band,
Nature's own Nobleman, friendly and frank,
Is a man with his heart in his hand!
“The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.”
Source: The Zahir (2005), p. 65.
Context: I learned something recently: our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs. False friends only appear at difficult times, with their sad, supportive faces, when, in fact, our suffering is serving to console them for their miserable lives...