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 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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I do half the cooking, and by 'half' I mean three quarters," Dad pointed out. "And if you're going to turn up your nose at all my carnivorous delights, ingrate child, you can sit under the table and gnaw sadly on a raw Brussels sprout at mealtimes.
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If wisdom were offered me with the proviso that I should keep it shut up and refrain from declaring it, I should refuse. There's no delight in owning anything unshared.
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There are sneakers that cost more than an iPod.
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My family spent many years sleeping side by side in the same room. It's important for me to not separate myself from them or to say that I've suffered more than they have because I'm gay. We all suffered from the same political rejection, and from poverty. When you're starving with eleven other people in the same room, you become connected to them forever. We were all hungry at the same time.
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For it is characteristic of true simplicity that there may radiate from its utmost directness a good many glinting things.
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Since that deluge of newspaper articles I have been so flooded with questions, invitations, suggestions, that I keep dreaming I am roasting in Hell, and the mailman is the devil eternally yelling at me, showering me with more bundles of letters at my head because I have not answered the old ones.
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My lady's sparrow is dead, the sparrow which was my lady's delight
