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Delight Quotes
"From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born."
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"There is no delight in owning anything unshared."
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"Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence."
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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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"Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment."
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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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"Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss."
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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."
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"There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer."
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"When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves."
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"How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?"
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"What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?"
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"Well-building hat three conditions. Commodity, firmness, and 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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"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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"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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"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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"Pay-per-view would deprive many kids of the delight of seeing the Olympics."
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"The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing."
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"The 'relative' delights the mind (manoranjan), the 'real' delights the Self (the soul, atmaranjan)."
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"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."
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