Delight Quotes
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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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I do half the cooking, and by 'half' I mean three quarters," Dad pointed out. "And if you're going to turn up your nose at all my carnivorous delights, ingrate child, you can sit under the table and gnaw sadly on a raw Brussels sprout at mealtimes.
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Instead of working so hard to prove the skeptics wrong, it makes a lot more sense to delight the true believers. They deserve it, after all, and they're the ones that are going to spread the word for you.
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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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That which we are not permitted to have we delight in; that which we can have is disregarded.
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From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born.
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You are far more likely to do your best work if you are willing to delight a few as opposed to soothe the masses.
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Every object, every being, is a jar full of delight.
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A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden; only the delight of its users did that.
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Among unequals what society Can sort, what harmony, or true delight?
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One sip of this will bathe the drooping spirits in delight, beyond the bliss of dreams.
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Make the Sabbath a delight by rendering service to others.
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Oh, but she never wanted James to grow a day older or Cam either. These two she would have liked to keep for ever just as the way they were, demons of wickedness, angels of delight, never to see them grow up into long-legged monsters.
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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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To delight the ear and the eye is a mere sensual indulgence;—true poetry strikes at the soul.
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Say, what abridgement have you for this evening? What masque, what music? How shall we beguile The lazy time if not with some delight?
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To prefer it is better than to only know it. To delight in it is better than merely to prefer it.
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Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.
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My lady's sparrow is dead, the sparrow which was my lady's delight
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Delight, Delight, Delight...in our youth.
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TV has gone back to basics, relating to middle class family with real characters, less make-up and simple shots. I feel as an actor it is a delight to work in such shows.
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I flush with heaving passion's strange delight, Yet find contentment lost in appetite.
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We don't honor just to get a reward; we honor because it is the heart of God, and it is our delight.
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Beauty is found in anything that delights the senses, nourishes the soul, fires the imagination.
