Delight Quotes
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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.
George Armitage Miller
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You have delighted us long enough.
Jane Austen
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My lady's sparrow is dead, the sparrow which was my lady's delight
Catullus
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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.
Virginia Woolf
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If, for you, orthodox means finally “getting it right” or “getting it straight,” mine is a pretty disappointing, curvy orthodoxy. But if, for you, orthodoxy isn’t a list of correct doctrines, but rather the doxa in orthodoxy, which means “thinking” or “opinion,” then the lifelong pursuit of expanding thinking and deepening, broadening opinions about God sounds like a delight, a joy.
Brian D. McLaren
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From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born.
Michelangelo
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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.
Celia Thaxter
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There should be hours for necessities, not for delights; times to repair our nature with comforting repose, and not for us to waste these times.
William Shakespeare
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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.
Seth Godin
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Music is a treasure and a love and a delight. It clears people's souls and lifts them high.
David Rodigan
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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.
Sarah Orne Jewett
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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.
John Bevere