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"That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit."
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"I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below."
"Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence."
"What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?"
"The 'relative' delights the mind (manoranjan), the 'real' delights the Self (the soul, atmaranjan)."
"And so my militant philosophy is this: to make with a brush on canvas is a simple direct delight-to make with the movie is the same."
"Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss."
"Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment."
"Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities. Sometimes, though, it's just pure, unthinking delight."
"Well-building hat three conditions. Commodity, firmness, and delight."
"When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves."
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"Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats."
"We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes."
"A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay."
"The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple."
"Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response."
"To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age."
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