"That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit."

Delight, Expectation, Profit

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"That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit."

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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."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

Delight, Man, Pleasure, Satisfaction

"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

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

Samuel Richardson, English Novelist

Delight, Merit, Thinking, World

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

Joseph Joubert, French Writer

Delight, Mind, Pain

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

Walter Savage Landor, English Poet

Delight, Singing

"I know not if the dark or bright shall be by lot; if that wherein my hopes delight be best or not."

Henry Alford, English Clergyman

Delight,

"Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss."

Dick Gregory, American Comedian

Delight, Loss, Possession

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"To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age."

Age, Heart, Old

"The less routine the more life."

Life, Routine

"Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators."

Experience, Books, Observation

"Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response."

Mankind,

"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."

Family, Society, Children, Paradise

"While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be."

Fulfillment, Company, May, Old, Years

"Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine."

Conversation, Debate

"A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay."

Business, Government, Corruption

"Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats."

Success,

"Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man."

Life, Thought, Man, Sense