Delight Quotes
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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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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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Delighting in God's Word leads us to delight in God, and delight in God drives away fear.
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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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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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You have delighted us long enough.
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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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I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism.
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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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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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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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What sweet delight a quiet life affords.
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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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A lonely impulse of delight
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Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.
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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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What great delight it is to see the ones we love and then to have speech with them.
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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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Man is a poetical animal, and delights in fiction.
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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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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 lady's sparrow is dead, the sparrow which was my lady's delight
