Catullus (Gaius Valerius Catullus) Quotes
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It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight.
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When Dwight Eisenhower became president, I personally was delighted. I thought that that was a very good thing.
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The true Christian delights to hear something about his Master. He likes those sermons best which are full of Christ.
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I saw satan laughing with delight The day the music died.
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My liveliest delight was in having conquered myself.
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Among the most remarkable features characterizing Zen we find these: spirituality, directness of expression, disregard of form or conventionalism, and frequently an almost wanton delight in going astray from respectability.
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A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
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God loves us NOT because we're lovable, because He is love. Not because He needs to receive, because He delights to give.
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We long for more and God's promise is that there is more awaiting us. More to delight us than we will ever exhaust.
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For imitation is natural to man from his infancy. Man differs from other animals particularly in this, that he is imitative, and acquires his rudiments of knowledge in this way; besides, the delight in it is universal.
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The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.
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A man is a hypocrite only when he affects to take a delight in what he does not feel, not because he takes a perverse delight in opposite things.
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To know it is not as good as to love it, and to love it is not as good as to take delight in it.
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To consider this desirable would be to delight in the slaughter of men; and he who delights in the slaughter of men cannot get his will in the kingdom.
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To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.
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The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled.
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Gold, silver, jewels, purple garments, houses built of marble, groomed estates, pious paintings, caparisoned steeds, and other things of this kind offer a mutable and superficial pleasure; books give delight to the very marrow of one's bones. They speak to us, consult with us, and join with us in a living and intense intimacy.
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...Everything that is, desires to be. As we act, we unfold our being. Enjoyment naturally follows, for a thing desired always brings delight.
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You can experience true delight on the Sabbath from family history work...Finding family members...can bring immense joy.
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Germany had the misfortune of becoming poisoned, first because of plenty, and then because of want.
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Ayahuasca, unlike mushrooms and all these other things is only as good as the person who made it. . . . The ayahuasca is a combinatory drug, and so it brings the human interaction and the lore of it into a much more central position.
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When I was young I was only thinking of writing, and whatever was going on was unreal and comparatively unimportant.
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My lady's sparrow is dead, the sparrow which was my lady's delight
