"The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level."

Delight, Merit, Thinking, World

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"So it was scary, but that's how it goes. To my great delight, I discovered that it did all belong."

Michael Chabon, American Author

Delight,

"Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities. Sometimes, though, it's just pure, unthinking delight."

Barbara Schapiro, American Author

Delight, Laughter

"The idea of my heart dancing with delight was far too good to pass up."

Tahir Shah, British Author

Delight, Joy, Emotion, Hope

"There is no delight in owning anything unshared."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

Delight, Statesman, Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"Pay-per-view would deprive many kids of the delight of seeing the Olympics."

Mary Lou Retton, American Athlete

Delight, Kids

"Look thy last on all things lovely, Every hour - let no night Seal thy sense in deathly slumber Till to delight Thou hast paid thy utmost blessing."

Austin Dobson, English Celebrity

Delight, Night, Sense

"Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage."

Paul Engle, American Poet

Delight, Grief, Words

"What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?"

Edmund Spenser, English Poet

Delight, Liberty

"The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight."

Joseph Joubert, French Writer

Delight, Mind, Pain

"There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer."

Walter Savage Landor, English Poet

Delight, Singing

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"So it was scary, but that's how it goes. To my great delight, I discovered that it did all belong."

"Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities. Sometimes, though, it's just pure, unthinking delight."

"The idea of my heart dancing with delight was far too good to pass up."

"There is no delight in owning anything unshared."

"Pay-per-view would deprive many kids of the delight of seeing the Olympics."

"Look thy last on all things lovely, Every hour - let no night Seal thy sense in deathly slumber Till to delight Thou hast paid thy utmost blessing."

"Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage."

"What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?"

"The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight."

"There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer."

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"We are all very ready to believe what we like."

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"Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves."

"Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating."

"A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive."

"Quantity in food is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry."

"A man may keep a woman, but not his estate."

"Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated."

"Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled."