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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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"So it was scary, but that's how it goes. To my great delight, I discovered that it did all belong."
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"Well-building hat three conditions. Commodity, firmness, and delight."
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"The 'relative' delights the mind (manoranjan), the 'real' delights the Self (the soul, atmaranjan)."
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"The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight."
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"That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit."
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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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"There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer."
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"From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born."
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"How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?"
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"There is no delight in owning anything unshared."
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"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

"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

"In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River."
Time

"In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death."
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

"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

"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

"In such a diversity it was impossible I should be disposed to melancholy."
Exploration

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