"When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves."

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"When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves."

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

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

Tahir Shah, British Author

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"There is no delight in owning anything unshared."

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

Mary Lou Retton, American Athlete

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"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

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

Edmund Spenser, English Poet

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

Joseph Joubert, French Writer

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

Walter Savage Landor, English Poet

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"Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence."

William Blake, English Poet

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"The 'relative' delights the mind (manoranjan), the 'real' delights the Self (the soul, atmaranjan)."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

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"Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh."

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"You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life."

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"One hardly saves a world without ruling it."

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"Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen."

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