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"That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit."
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"What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?"
"When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves."
"I know not if the dark or bright shall be by lot; if that wherein my hopes delight be best or not."
"Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss."
"Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities. Sometimes, though, it's just pure, unthinking delight."
"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."
"There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer."
"Not only that, but when I first met Joe, to my intense delight, he showed me that he was a collector. He was collecting some of the early Tarzan pages by Hal Foster, and, later, early Flash Gordons; and I found that we were both absolutely interested in the same type of thing."
Explore more quotes by Amos Bronson Alcott
"To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age."
"Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man."
"Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture."
"A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay."
"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."
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