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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To communicate is our chief business; society and friendship our chief delights; and reading, not to acquire knowledge, not to earn a living, but to extend our intercourse beyond our own time and province.
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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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Every Night and every Morn Some to Misery are born. Every Morn and every Night Some are born to Sweet Delight, Some are born to Endless Night.
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There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign; Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain.
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I will have to earn trust and respect from my kids.
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Play isn't you being clever, or finding a trick, or finding a way of covering over your own misery, or persuading someone to do what you want. It's the process of working with the materials that you find and discovering what's possible with them.
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Athens is an amazing city for creativity. I bought a house there. A little, tiny place.
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My lady's sparrow is dead, the sparrow which was my lady's delight
