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"A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes."
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"I'm growing old, I delight in the past."
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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."
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"Well-building hat three conditions. Commodity, firmness, and delight."
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"The 'relative' delights the mind (manoranjan), the 'real' delights the Self (the soul, atmaranjan)."
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"What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?"
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"Pay-per-view would deprive many kids of the delight of seeing the Olympics."
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"The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing."
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"The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight."
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"That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit."
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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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"It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are."
Relationship
"For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible."
Time
"Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax."
Nature
"A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations."
Thought
"It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain."
Sacrifice
"Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them."
Time
"To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them."
Time
"Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude."
Man
"Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think."
Art
"It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character."
Character
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