17 Metaphors for enjoyments

For Nature and books react so intimately on each other, and, far more than one realizes without thought, our enjoyment of Nature is a creation of literature.

Everywhere else the ideas of contrast appear and the enjoyment of nature is elegiac or satiric.

Their enjoyment is sufficient pay.

The enjoyment of others' suffering was a splendid pagan virtue.

We have seen that the Spirit's Enjoyment of Life is necessarily a reciprocalit must have a corresponding fact in manifestation to answer to it; otherwise by the inherent law of mind no consciousness, and consequently no enjoyment, could accrue; and therefore by the law of continuous progression the required Reciprocal should manifest as a being awakening to the consciousness of the principle by which he himself comes into existence.

amid the Blaze of Noon: Irrecoverably dark, total Eclipse, Without all Hopes of Day!' The Enjoyment of Sight then being so great a Blessing, and the Loss of it so terrible an Evil, how excellent and valuable is the Skill of that Artist which can restore the former, and redress the latter?

The enjoyments of life (such was now my theory) are sufficient to make it a pleasant thing, when they are taken en passant, without being made a principal object.

An interval ... during which I have been doing a good many things, my greatest enjoyment and pleasure being the receipt at last of two sets of letters from home....

His highest enjoyment, outside the society of his family, was music.

All ties being precarious and their endurance short, their force became less and less; till the utmost enjoyment of the longest possible life for himself became the sole, or almost the sole, animating motive, the one paramount interest, of each individual.

Animal enjoyment becomes the most precious, since it is the keenest.

The enjoyment of ease and solitude is their chief concern.

They spoke of French and Italian actors by name, laughed heartily over the playwright's conception of social usages, and made Mathilde feel as if her own unacknowledged enjoyment of the play was the guiltiest of secrets.

But to shorten the way to convivial happiness, by eating without cost, is a secret hitherto in few hands, but which certainly deserves the curiosity of those whose principal enjoyment is their dinner, and who see the sun rise with no other hope than that they shall fill their bellies before it sets.

It is one of those places where the enjoyment is all romance, and the blood thrills as we gaze upon it.

The enjoyment of each was the enjoyment of all; and even when the tempest of humour was at its height, not a word was said that was intended to be offensive.

It is perhaps the strongest human passion; and the more absolute the power, the stronger the desire for it; and the more it is desired, the more its exercise is enjoyed: this enjoyment is to human nature a fearful temptation,generally an overmatch for it.

17 Metaphors for  enjoyments