Delight Quotes
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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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If an Artist love his Art for its own sake, he will delight in excellence wherever he meets it, as well in the work of another as in his own.
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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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If you have any talent, or any occupation that delights you, do it, and do it to the hilt. Don't ask why, or what difficulties you may get into.
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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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If you choose to go hard after God, you’ll experience more adversity than you would encounter if you played it safe, but you’ll delight in more power and love than you ever dreamed possible.
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I love the vast surface of silence; and it is my chief delight to break it.
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What sweet delight a quiet life affords.
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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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Faith in God engenders a love for the Sabbath; faith in the Sabbath engenders a love for God. A sacred Sabbath truly is a delight.
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Intelligence is nothing without delight.
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Why, all delights are vain; but that most vain, Which, with pain purchas'd, doth inherit pain.
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You have delighted us long enough.
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There's keen delight in what we have: The rattle of pebbles on the shore Under the receding wave.
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Every word carries its own surprises and offers its own rewards to the reflective mind. Their amazing variety is a constant delight. I do not believe that I am alone in this - a fascination with words is shared by people in all countries and all walks of life.
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If I could be any animal I would be a pony because then I could have sex with ponies. Pony, what a funny word. Say it, pony. PO-KNEE. Now ah've made myself giddy with delight. Towards the ponies *laughs*
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My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.
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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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Love seeketh only self to please, To bind another to its delight, Joys in another's loss of ease, And builds a Hell in Heaven's despite.
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The delight you feel in that split second you score your first hundred is so intense it can't be repeated.
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I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism.
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Every object, every being, is a jar full of delight.
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Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.
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From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born.
