Delight Quotes
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These violent delights have violent ends.
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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 true Christian delights to hear something about his Master. He likes those sermons best which are full of Christ.
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Everything that's lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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Equals, the proverb goes, delight in equals.
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If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.
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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.
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We must risk delight. We can do without pleasure, but not delight. Not enjoyment.
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Misery still delights to trace Its semblance in another's case.
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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...
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Authority exercised with humility, and obedience accepted with delight are the very lines along which our spirits live.
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My liveliest delight was in having conquered myself.
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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."
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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.
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Laughter means: taking a mischievous delight in someone else's uneasiness, but with a good conscience.
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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.
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Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.
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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.
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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.
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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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O my God, if Thy creations are so full of beauty, delight and joy, how infinitely more full of beauty, delight and joy art Thou Thyself, Creator of all!
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What the eye delights in, no longer dictates My greed to enjoy: boys, grass, the fenced-off deer. It leaves those figures that distantly play On the horizon's rim: they sign their peace, in games.
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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.
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You have delighted us long enough.
