Delight Quotes
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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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Everything that's lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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I love the vast surface of silence; and it is my chief delight to break it.
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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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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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Laughter means: taking a mischievous delight in someone else's uneasiness, but with a good conscience.
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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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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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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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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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I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism.
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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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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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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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Why, all delights are vain; but that most vain, Which, with pain purchas'd, doth inherit pain.
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So what's your team called?" asked Kate, twisting her legs into a pretzel-like configuration, "We're called the Winmates because we're inmates who win." Kate looked back and forth at Reynie and Constance, searching their expression for signs of delight. "You gave yourselves a name?" asked Constance. Now it was Kate's turn to be baffled. "You didn't? How can you have a team without a name?
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What sweet delight a quiet life affords.
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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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A lonely impulse of delight
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If wisdom were offered me with the proviso that I should keep it shut up and refrain from declaring it, I should refuse. There's no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Man is a poetical animal, and delights in fiction.
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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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Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.
