Delight Quotes
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My liveliest delight was in having conquered myself.
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The jealous have but moments of Delight for years of Pain.
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These violent delights have violent ends.
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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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[My kitten] is dressed in a tortoise-shell suit, and I know you will delight in her.
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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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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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The early Christians did not say, in dismay, 'Look what the world has come to,' but, in delight, 'Look what has come to the world!”
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Delighting in God's Word leads us to delight in God, and delight in God drives away fear.
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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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L'imagination m'apportait des délices infinies. En recouvrant ce que les hommes appellent la raison, faudra-t-il regretter de les avoir perdues...? My imagination gave me infinite delight. In recovering what men call reason, do I have to regret the loss of these joys?
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...there is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful ones in meditation.
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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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O Fame! if I ever took delight in thy praises, Twas less for the sake of thy high-sounding phrases, Than to see the bright eyes of the dear one discover The thought that I was not unworthy to love her.
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We gathered the wild-flowers. Yes, life there seem'd one pure delight; As thro' the field we rov'd. Yes, life there seem'd one pure delight.
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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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Misery still delights to trace Its semblance in another's case.
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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.
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What great delight it is to see the ones we love and then to have speech with them.
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Beauty spins and the mind moves. To catch beauty would be to understand how that impertinent stability in vertigo is possible. But no, delight need not reach so far. To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
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Intelligence is nothing without delight.
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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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Ah! the terror and the delight of that moment when first we fear ourselves! Until then we have not lived.
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If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.
