Delight Quotes
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If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.
William Congreve
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Everything that's lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
William Butler Yeats
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The true Christian delights to hear something about his Master. He likes those sermons best which are full of Christ.
J. C. Ryle
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I know so many women in their fifties, sixties and seventies who delight in being on their own. It's amazing. They don't see any stigma attached to it. We don't need a man to prove our identity anymore.
Erica Jong
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Equals, the proverb goes, delight in equals.
Plato
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Authority exercised with humility, and obedience accepted with delight are the very lines along which our spirits live.
C. S. Lewis
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Prayer should not be regarded as a duty which must be performed, but rather as a privilege to be enjoyed, a rare delight that is always revealing some new beauty.
Edward McKendree Bounds
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The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
Robert Frost
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These violent delights have violent ends.
William Shakespeare
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All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their usefulness they are loved for themselves...
Aristotle
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In the time of your life, live—so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery of it."
William Saroyan
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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.
Alphonsus Liguori
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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.
Virginia Woolf
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My liveliest delight was in having conquered myself.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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We must risk delight. We can do without pleasure, but not delight. Not enjoyment.
Jack Gilbert
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Yes, social friend, I love thee well, In learned doctor's spite; Thy clouds all other clouds dispel And lap me in delight.
Charles Sprague Sargent
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Early in April, as I was vigorously hoeing in a corner, I unearthed a huge toad, to my perfect delight and satisfaction; he had lived all winter, he had doubtless fed on slugs all the autumn. I could have kissed him on the spot.
Celia Thaxter
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You have delighted us long enough.
Jane Austen
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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.
William Hazlitt
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Indeed, we may go further and assert that anyone who does not delight in fine actions is not even a good man.
Aristotle
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The warm sun kissed the earthTo consecrate thy birth,And from his close embraceThy radiant faceSprang into sight,A blossoming delight.
Sarah Orne Jewett
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Laughter means: taking a mischievous delight in someone else's uneasiness, but with a good conscience.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Delight, Delight, Delight...in our youth.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
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Delighting in God's Word leads us to delight in God, and delight in God drives away fear.
David Jeremiah