The gratifications of animal appetite are of short duration; and sensuality is but a distemper of the mind, which ought to be cured by remembrance, if it were not perpetually inflamed by hope.
That the range of aesthetic gratificationsis wider for the altruistic nature than for the egoistic nature is also a truth not to be overlooked.
Besides furthering prosperity, other regarding actions conduce to self-regarding gratifications by generating a genial environment.
In the gratifications derived by parents from the gratifications of their offspring, this is conspicuously shown.
Hence, whatever decreases the strength of men in general restricts the gratifications of each by making the means to them dearer.
In natures thus constituted, though the altruistic gratifications must remain in a transfigured sense egoistic, yet they will not be egoistically pursued--will not be pursued from egoistic motives.
I endeavoured, for argument's sake, to maintain that men of learning and talents might have very good intellectual society, without the aid of any little gratifications of the senses.
Would you refuse any slight gratifications to a man under sentence of death?
Nor many wives who seek comfort in such selfish gratifications as you do, I hope,’ retorts the gentleman.
There are not many married men, I hope,’ returns the lady, ‘who seek comfort in such selfishgratifications as you do.
In this work Martha and Lucy, Kate and Emma assisted--so that their kindly and generous feelings were awakened, and they too began to save from their own selfish gratifications to give to those who were in want.
Even the most frivolous, among the rich and great, are often found practising a rigid economy, in certain respects, in order to secure gratifications in another direction.
The main object of life, is not to secure the various gratifications of appetite or taste, but to form such a character, for ourselves and others, as will secure the greatest amount of present and future happiness.
Physical Gratifications should always be subordinate to Social, Intellectual, and Moral Advantages.
And thus, even leaving out of view the immediate gratifications it is hourly giving, we cannot too much applaud that progress of musical culture which is becoming one of the characteristics of our age.
To such as these, as there are certainly many such, the gratifications of innocent pleasures are doubled, even with reflections upon their imperfection.
It is possible the very inquiry would lead men into such thoughts and gratifications as they did not expect to meet with in this place.
The lower Manas still yearns towards kâmic gratifications and the vivid highly coloured sensations of earth-life, and can by these yearnings be drawn back to the scenes it has regretfully quitted.
Cairo it is possible to obtain at the same time the gratifications of society and the secrecy of solitude.
Thus they preferred the intoxications of conquest, the gratifications of lust, to the triumphs of true civilization, to the congratulations of a redeemed race.
Conversely with the pleasure-giving acts, repetitions of kind deeds and experiences of the sympathetic gratifications that follow tend continually to make stronger the association between deeds and feelings of happiness.
Long introductions are like lengthy prayers before meals to hungry men, they are mumbled over with unintelligible rapidity, or altogether omitted, for the more solid gratifications of the stomach, or the enjoyments of the mind.
He finds that these gratifications increase in proportion to the wretchedness and slavery of his subjects.
My monetary provision after my wedding consisted of Gottschalk's golden florin, hence, two florins of current coin; my savings and the gratifications were nothing more than a memory.
On this assumption, the theory becomes undeniably applicable to those gratifications of sensual appetite which form the most prominent element of the pleasures of sense, as popularly conceived.
Is it not madness to expose ourselves to its attacks for the shortlived gratifications of a moment?
All mankind must and will seek for gratifications of some sort or other.
In the light of God’s word we are justified in declaring that sanctification cannot be genuine which does not work this utter renunciation of the sinful pursuits and gratifications of the world.
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