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

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"Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment."

Ben Jonson, English Poet

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"How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?"

Franz Kafka, Austrian Novelist

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"Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage."

Paul Engle, American Poet

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"I'm growing old, I delight in the past."

Henri Matisse, French Artist

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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

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"The idea of my heart dancing with delight was far too good to pass up."

Tahir Shah, British 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 'relative' delights the mind (manoranjan), the 'real' delights the Self (the soul, atmaranjan)."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

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"There is no delight in owning anything unshared."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination."

Mencius, Chinese Philosopher

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"We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love."

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"Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age."

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"People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend."

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"Consult duty not events."

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"There is no easy path leading out of life, and few easy ones that lie within it."

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"Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose."

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"The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love."

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"We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love."

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"Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him."

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"The Siren waits thee, singing song for song."

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