Delight Quotes
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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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How beautiful the water is! To me 'tis wondrous fair-- No spot can ever lonely be If water sparkle there; It hath a thousand tongues of mirth, Of grandeur, or delight, And every heart is gladder made When water greets the sight.
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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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Equals, the proverb goes, delight in equals.
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We must risk delight. We can do without pleasure, but not delight. Not enjoyment.
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And in some perfumes there is more delight than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know that music hath a far more pleasing sound.
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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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If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.
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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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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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Everything that's lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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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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Ah! the terror and the delight of that moment when first we fear ourselves! Until then we have not lived.
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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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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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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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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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Misery still delights to trace Its semblance in another's case.
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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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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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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.
