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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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"Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment."
"Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence."
"Well-building hat three conditions. Commodity, firmness, and delight."
"How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?"
"I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below."
"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."
"There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer."
"Pay-per-view would deprive many kids of the delight of seeing the Olympics."
"That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit."
"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."
"So it was scary, but that's how it goes. To my great delight, I discovered that it did all belong."
"The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing."
"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."
"Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss."
"What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?"
"When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves."
"I know not if the dark or bright shall be by lot; if that wherein my hopes delight be best or not."
"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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