“Never to blend our pleasure or our pride
With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.”
Hart-leap Well, part ii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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English Romantic poet 1770–1850Related quotes
“What's my guilty pleasure? The thing is, I never feel guilty about pleasures.”
from "In a few days now when two memories meet", 1964
The Poems of J. V. Cunningham, edited by Timothy Steele, Ohio University Press/Swallow Press, 1997, ISBN 0-804-00997-X
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The Network of Thought (1982) http://www.jkrishnamurti.org/krishnamurti-teachings/view-text.php?tid=8&chid=56898 J.Krishnamurti Online. Serial No. 332. , p. 96
1980s
Context: The understanding of relationship, fear, pleasure and sorrow is to bring order in our house. Without order you cannot possibly meditate. Now the speaker puts meditation at the end of the talks because there is no possibility of right meditation if you have not put your house, your psychological house, in order. If the psychological house is in disorder, if what you are is in disorder, what is the point of meditating? It is just an escape. It leads to all kinds of illusions.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 556.
“The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.”
A Defence of Poetry http://www.bartleby.com/27/23.html (1821)
“Pity it is to slay the meanest thing.”
Plea of the Midsummer Fairies; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
20th century
