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

Delight, Pain

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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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"Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage."

Paul Engle, American Poet

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

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

Edmund Spenser, English Poet

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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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"It was like the way you wanted sunshine on Saturdays, or pancakes for breakfast. They just made you feel good."

Sarah Addison Allen, American Novelist

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"When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves."

Emile M. Cioran, Romanian Philosopher

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"I know not if the dark or bright shall be by lot; if that wherein my hopes delight be best or not."

Henry Alford, English Clergyman

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

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

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"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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"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."

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"Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle."

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"Genius is eternal patience."

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"A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it."

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"Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come."

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"Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven."

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"I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all."

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"The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark."

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

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