Delight Quotes
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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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Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.
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To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.
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Every object, every being, is a jar full of delight.
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A lonely impulse of delight
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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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A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden; only the delight of its users did that.
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My lady's sparrow is dead, the sparrow which was my lady's 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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Delight, Delight, Delight...in our youth.
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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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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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That which we are not permitted to have we delight in; that which we can have is disregarded.
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Among unequals what society Can sort, what harmony, or true 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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Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.
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I flush with heaving passion's strange delight, Yet find contentment lost in appetite.
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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.
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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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Make the Sabbath a delight by rendering service to others.
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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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Beauty is found in anything that delights the senses, nourishes the soul, fires the imagination.
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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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To me, art is not a solitary delight. It is a means of stirring the greatest number of men by providing them with a privileged image of our common joys and woes.
