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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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"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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"Look thy last on all things lovely, Every hour - let no night Seal thy sense in deathly slumber Till to delight Thou hast paid thy utmost blessing."
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"Well-building hat three conditions. Commodity, firmness, and delight."
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"The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level."
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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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"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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"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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"That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit."
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"The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight."
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"The 'relative' delights the mind (manoranjan), the 'real' delights the Self (the soul, atmaranjan)."
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"The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course."
Self-Reliance
"If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes."
Beauty
"It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges."
Awareness
"I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish."
Hope
"A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it."
Pain
"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?"
Appreciation
"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."
Thought
"Genius is eternal patience."
Genius
"Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come."
Beauty
"I am still learning."
Learning
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