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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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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You know lots of criticism is written by characters who are very academic and think it is a sign you are worthless if you make jokes or kid or even clown. I wouldn't kid Our Lord if he was on the cross. But I would attempt a joke with him if I ran into him chasing the money changers out of the temple.
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It is not sufficient merely to be a great master in painting and very wise, but I think that it is necessary for the painter to be very moral in his mode of life, or even, if such were possible, a saint, so that the Holy Spirit may inspire his intellect.
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I was a big fan of Super Troopers, so working with the Broken Lizard guys was so much fun.
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My lady's sparrow is dead, the sparrow which was my lady's delight
