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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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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From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born.
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I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism.
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A lonely impulse of delight
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Nature was indeed at her artistic best when she created the nutmeg, a delight to the eye in all its avatars, from the completely garbed to nudity.
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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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To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.
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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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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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That which we are not permitted to have we delight in; that which we can have is disregarded.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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To delight the ear and the eye is a mere sensual indulgence;—true poetry strikes at the soul.
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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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One sip of this will bathe the drooping spirits in delight, beyond the bliss of dreams.
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And was the day of my delight As pure and perfect as I say?
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Make the Sabbath a delight by rendering service to others.
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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.
