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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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"That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit."

"Not only that, but when I first met Joe, to my intense delight, he showed me that he was a collector. He was collecting some of the early Tarzan pages by Hal Foster, and, later, early Flash Gordons; and I found that we were both absolutely interested in the same type of thing."

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

"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."

"Pay-per-view would deprive many kids of the delight of seeing the Olympics."

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

"What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?"

"The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing."

"There is no delight in owning anything unshared."
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"The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially contain within its mass, but only a hand obedient to the mind can penetrate to this image."

"The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone."

"I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible."

"If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master."

"What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?"
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