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"I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below."
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"How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?"
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"What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?"
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"Pay-per-view would deprive many kids of the delight of seeing the Olympics."
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"The 'relative' delights the mind (manoranjan), the 'real' delights the Self (the soul, atmaranjan)."
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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."
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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."
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"The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing."
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"I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below."
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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."
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"I'm growing old, I delight in the past."
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"On the fourth day of July following, a party of about two hundred Indians attacked Boonsborough, killed one man, and wounded two."
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"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

"Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections."
Soul

"One day I undertook a tour through the country, and the diversity and beauties of nature I met with in this charming season, expelled every gloomy and vexatious thought."
Nature

"I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below."
Delight

"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

"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

"We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in the country but ourselves."
Death

"Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune."
Home

"I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks."
Being
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