Whenever we are formed by nature to any active purpose, the passion which animates us to it is attended with delight, or a pleasure of some kind, let the subject-matter be what it will
 Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757). copy citation

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Author Edmund Burke
Source A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
Topic passion pleasure
Date 1757
Language English
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