Delight Quotes
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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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There's keen delight in what we have: The rattle of pebbles on the shore Under the receding wave.
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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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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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Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.
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You have delighted us long enough.
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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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I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism.
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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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Why, all delights are vain; but that most vain, Which, with pain purchas'd, doth inherit pain.
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To delight the ear and the eye is a mere sensual indulgence;—true poetry strikes at the soul.
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Man is a poetical animal, and delights in fiction.
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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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What sweet delight a quiet life affords.
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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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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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Intelligence is nothing without delight.
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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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One sip of this will bathe the drooping spirits in delight, beyond the bliss of dreams.
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A lonely impulse of delight
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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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And I feel that we in our society should not be held by any such myth; that we should do everything we can to gain a delight and joy in our society with all the available parts of the palette.
