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Within the dance of clever spontaneity, discovery grins, whispering secrets only handed to those who play Paeans with chaos rather than shun it.
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AuroraDream spinner
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Embrace the whimsical dance of mismatched socks; in their playful disparity lies a vibrant canvas of unexpected joy and personal truth.
Author:
Olivia Kidney
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In the silence left by obvious desires, behind shadows and soft sighs, the most fragile castles of promise often emerge, each yearning anchoring two souls with invisible threads into realms of profound wonder.
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Eliot Harmon
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True excellence speaks beneath pretense; it crafts a boundless freedom so all can perceive its serene delight.
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Clara Montgomery
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In a world often enchanted by bright lights and grand gestures, it's the subtle sway of unobtrusive champions that sculpt the silent landscapes of rare redemption.
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Clara Montague
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Idle is the day and lantern the hour as I delight in the splendor of your kiss grog.
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Isabel Yosito
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Well-building hat three conditions. Commodity, firmness, and delight.
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Henry Wotton
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How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?
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Lao Tzu
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As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit.
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Emmanuel Teney
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Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own.
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Emanuel Swedenborg
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Count Dracula had directed me to go to the Golden Krone Hotel, which I found, to my great delight, to be thoroughly old-fashioned, for of course I wanted to see all I could of the ways of the country.
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Bram Stoker
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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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Edmund Spenser
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Twins are usually hailed with delight, because they swell the power of the family, though in some instances they are put to death.
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John Speke
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Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
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Socrates
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To business that we love we rise bedtime, and go to't with delight.
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Sydney Smith
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There is much boasting among the young men about their teams as their horse and carts in Cleveland. Most of the Yorkshire men take as much delight in their ox draught as they used to do in their Horse Draught.
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Nathaniel Smith
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Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
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Alexander Smith
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Not only that, but when I first met Joe, to my intense delight, he showed me that he was a collector. He was collecting some of the early Tarzan pages by Hal Foster, and, later, early Flash Gordons; and I found that we were both absolutely interested in the same type of thing.
Author:
Joe Shuster
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War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.
Author:
Percy Shelley
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There is no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Lucius Seneca
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It is also very engaging - and a delight - to go back to Bangladesh as often as I can, which is not only my old home, but also where some of my closest friends and collaborators live and work.
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Amartya Sen
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A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.
Author:
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.
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Friedrich Schiller
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Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities. Sometimes, though, it's just pure, unthinking delight.
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Barbara Schapiro
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To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.
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George Santayana
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To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
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George Santayana
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Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight.
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William Safire
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A lot of my characters in all of my books have a self-destructive urge. They'll do precisely the thing that they know is wrong, take a perverse delight in doing the wrong thing.
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Richard Russo
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The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.
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Bertrand Russell
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The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.
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Bertrand Russell
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God created me to delight people with my goals.
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Romario
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Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.
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Nora Roberts
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The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.
Author:
Samuel Richardson
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Pay-per-view would deprive many kids of the delight of seeing the Olympics.
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Mary Retton
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True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.
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Philip Pullman
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As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that thank Heaven nobody is reporting in this fashion on us.
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Joseph Priestley
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The applause is a celebration not only of the actors but also of the audience. It constitutes a shared moment of delight.
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John Polanyi
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Strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and wife gazing and smiling at them.
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Samuel Pepys
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Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.
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Samuel Pepys
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Lyrics are very different. There is a clear line between that and a poem. Something that has been a source of great excitement and delight for me is this idea that I get to rhyme.
Author:
Joanna Newsom
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To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Charles Montesquieu
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From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born.
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Michelangelo
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There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.
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Mencius
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There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them.
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Herman Melville
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It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!
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Anthony Mello
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And so my militant philosophy is this: to make with a brush on canvas is a simple direct delight-to make with the movie is the same.
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Norman McLaren
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I'm growing old, I delight in the past.
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Henri Matisse
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Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few.
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John Masefield
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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
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Gabriel Marquez
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From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
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Lucretius
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Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.
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John Locke
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Not only is there no need of an intermediary through whom He would want you to speak to Him, but He finds His delight in having you treat with Him personally and in all confidence.
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Alphonsus Liguori
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Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.
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Georg Lichtenberg
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Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.
Author:
George Lewes
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There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.
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Walter Landor
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Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight.
Author:
Milan Kundera
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The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.
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Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
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Helen Keller
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How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?
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Franz Kafka
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The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
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Joseph Joubert
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Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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Ben Jonson
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An honorable Peace is and always was my first wish! I can take no delight in the effusion of human Blood; but, if this War should continue, I wish to have the most active part in it.
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John Jones
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You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
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Samuel Johnson
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There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight.
Author:
Gertrude Jekyll
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I delight in what I fear.
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Shirley Jackson
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The universe must exist for the self-expression of God and the delight of God.
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Ernest Holmes
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I delight not in spreading any thing mysterious, for I consider it all lost time; but the things that all of us can see and know if we will.
Author:
Elias Hicks
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Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
Author:
Dick Gregory
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It's a delight to trust somebody so completely.
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Jeff Goldblum
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When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Author:
Khalil Gibran
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Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.
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John Gay
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The brave love mercy, and delight to save.
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John Gay
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I do not question the power of our weapons and the efficiency of our logistics; I cannot say these things delight me as the y seem to delight some of our officials, but they are certainly impressive.
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J. Fulbright
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A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
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Robert Frost
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LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.
Author:
Henry Fielding
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Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage.
Author:
Paul Engle
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Children will not pretend to be enjoying books, and they will not read books because they have been told that these books are good. They are looking for delight.
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Helen Dunmore
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Look thy last on all things lovely, Every hour - let no night Seal thy sense in deathly slumber Till to delight Thou hast paid thy utmost blessing.
Author:
Austin Dobson
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Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
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John Denham
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Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
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e. cummings
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If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.
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William Congreve
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You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite.
Author:
Alan Cohen
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Intelligence is nothing without delight.
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Paul Claudel
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When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves.
Author:
Emile Cioran
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So it was scary, but that's how it goes. To my great delight, I discovered that it did all belong.
Author:
Michael Chabon
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As for our garments, my Mother did not only delight to see us neat and cleanly, fine and gay, but rich and costly: maintaining us to the heighth of her estate, but not beyond it.
Author:
Margaret Cavendish
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As for plenty, we had not only for necessity, conveniency and decency, but for delight and pleasure to superfluity.
Author:
Margaret Cavendish
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For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance.
Author:
Margaret Cavendish
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From heav'nly thoughts all true delight doth spring.
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Thomas Campion
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The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.
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Julia Cameron
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However, without considering this connection, there is no doubt but that more good than evil, more delight than sorrow, arises from compassion itself; there being so many things which balance the sorrow of it.
Author:
Joseph Butler
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My delight and thy delight Walking, like two angels white, In the gardens of the night.
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Robert Bridges
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If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good.
Author:
James Boswell
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I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below.
Author:
Daniel Boone
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Nature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of delight.
Author:
Daniel Boone
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We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the power it confers and the burden it imposes. We learn how it can delight, give breathing space and protect.
Author:
Sissela Bok
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Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
Author:
William Blake
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The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled.
Author:
William Blake
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I have devoted my energies to the study of the scriptures, observing monastic discipline, and singing the daily services in church; study, teaching, and writing have always been my delight.
Author:
Venerable Bede
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And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.
Author:
Venerable Bede
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The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.
Author:
Charles Baudelaire
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We help people to begin truly healthful diets, and it is absolutely wonderful to see, not only their success, but also their delight at their ability to break old habits and feel really healthy for a change.
Author:
Neal Barnard
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Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.
Author:
Francis Bacon
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Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
Author:
Marcus Aurelius
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The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
Author:
Isaac Asimov
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Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
Author:
Hannah Arendt
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I know not if the dark or bright shall be by lot; if that wherein my hopes delight be best or not.
Author:
Henry Alford
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That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
Author:
Amos Alcott
