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

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

Amos Bronson Alcott, American Educator

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

Emile M. Cioran, Romanian Philosopher

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"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

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

Dick Gregory, American Comedian

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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."

Barbara Schapiro, American Author

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"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."

Norman McLaren, Scottish Artist

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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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"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."

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

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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."

"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."

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