"Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence."

Delight, Energy

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"Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence."

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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."

Michael Chabon, American Author

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"Well-building hat three conditions. Commodity, firmness, and delight."

Henry Wotton, English Author

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"The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight."

Joseph Joubert, French Writer

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

Walter Savage Landor, English Poet

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"From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born."

Michelangelo, Italian Artist

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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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"There is no delight in owning anything unshared."

Seneca, Roman 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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"Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night."

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"Travelers repose and dream among my leaves."

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"Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence."

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"The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction."

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"Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion."

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"You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue."

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"He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars."

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"The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself."

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"Eternity is in love with the productions of time."

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"As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers."

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