Delight Quotes
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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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What great delight it is to see the ones we love and then to have speech with them.
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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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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
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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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From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born.
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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 spins and the mind moves. To catch beauty would be to understand how that impertinent stability in vertigo is possible. But no, delight need not reach so far. To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
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Every object, every being, is a jar full 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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Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
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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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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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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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Among unequals what society Can sort, what harmony, or true delight?
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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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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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I flush with heaving passion's strange delight, Yet find contentment lost in appetite.
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There is no first world and third world. There is only one world, for all of us to live and delight in.
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I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.
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There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign; Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain.
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A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.
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Beauty is found in anything that delights the senses, nourishes the soul, fires the imagination.
