top of page
.png){kind=small}
"I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below."
Standard
Customized
More
"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."
Author Name
Personal Development
"How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?"
Author Name
Personal Development
"The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I know not if the dark or bright shall be by lot; if that wherein my hopes delight be best or not."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities. Sometimes, though, it's just pure, unthinking delight."
Author Name
Personal Development
"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."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss."
Author Name
Personal Development
"There is no delight in owning anything unshared."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick cane-brake upon us, and made us prisoners."
Photography
"In such a diversity it was impossible I should be disposed to melancholy."
Exploration
"I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below."
Delight
"In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River."
Time
"Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand!"
Peace
"During our travels, the Indians entertained me well; and their affection for me was so great, that they utterly refused to leave me there with the others, although the Governor offered them one hundred pounds sterling for me, on purpose to give me a parole to go home."
Home
"Most of the memorable events I have myself been exercised in; and, for the satisfaction of the public, will briefly relate the circumstances of my adventures, and scenes of life, from my first movement to this country until this day."
Life
"Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; and I firmly believe it requires but a little philosophy to make a man happy in whatever state he is."
Content
"On the fourth day of July following, a party of about two hundred Indians attacked Boonsborough, killed one man, and wounded two."
History
"A zeal for the defence of their country led these heroes to the scene of action, though with a few men to attack a powerful army of experienced warriors."
Man
bottom of page