As these twin passions preside over the generation of human life, so "beyond the mists of pleasure and pain" Kabîr finds them governing the creative acts of God.
On my wedding night my women-friends sang in chorus, and I was anointed with the unguents of pleasure and pain: But when the ceremony was over, I left my Lord and came away, and my kinsman tried to console me upon the road.
Those outside things which are commonly called good or bad, such as health and sickness, wealth and poverty, pleasure and pain, are to him indifferent adiofora.
Ellen's heart jumped when she saw them, with a mixed feeling of pleasure and sadness.
Fondness for the ground comes back to a man after he has run the round of pleasure and business, eaten dirt, and sown wild-oats, drifted about the world, and taken the wind of all its moods.
The word is firmly fixed in the idea that both for its pleasure andprofit it is necessary to know good and evil.
Irving cannot help expressing sympathy for Wiggins: "The poor man has his hands full, with such a bevy of beautiful women under his charge, and all doubtless bent on pleasure and admiration.
This is not the place to study child training in any extensive manner, yet it needs be said that praise and blame, pleasure and pain, are the great incentives to conduct.
She became a seeker ofpleasure and sensation, drifting from one type of amusement to the other in an intricately mixed coöperation and rivalry with members of her set.
It is for emotion that we live, for emotion in the wide sense of pleasure and pride.
And instead, he wrote: "I had hoped that the memory of old sores would not be allowed to stand in the way of what is a pleasure and a profit to me and my little grand-daughter.
He felt her cool hand on his forehead, smelled violets, and sat divided between a sort of pleasure and a determination to be all right.
Human nature is consistently underrated in business, people do themselves out of an awful lot of pleasure and profit by that.
Notwithstanding that Chesterfield, when young, injured both soul and body by pleasure and dissipation, he always found time for serious study: when he could not have it otherwise, he took it out of his sleep.
If men will but pause and consider what lessons they have learned from pleasure and pain, much might be guessed of that strange thing which causes these effects.
In this profound egoism is the very cause and source of the existence of pleasure and of pain.
Those who are the subjects of Time, and go slowly through all his spaces, live on through a long drawn series of sensations, and suffer a constant mingling of pleasure and of pain.
It is said in the Sruti: * "Not in this (state of existence) is there cessation of pleasure and pain of a living thing possessed of a body.
Now we must conceive of pleasure and pain in this way.
And in general, all that which is termed the incontinence of pleasure and is deemed a reproach under the idea that the wicked voluntarily do wrong is not justly a matter for reproach.
All men are agreed to call vinegar sour, honey sweet, and aloes bitter; and as they are all agreed in finding these qualities in those objects, they do not in the least differ concerning their effects with regard to pleasure and pain.
Bentham's standard of 'pleasure and pain' constituted in many ways an important advance upon 'natural right.
The Benthamites, by straining the meaning of words, tried to classify such motives as instinctive impulse, ancient tradition, habit, or personal and racial idiosyncrasy as being forms of pleasure and pain.
Admitting that the sensations, the feelings ofpleasure and pain, and those of relation, are the primary irresolvable states of consciousness, two further lines of investigation present themselves.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pleasure and" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
