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Tag Name "Delight" (1064)

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Satan delights equally in statistics and in quoting scripture.
H. G. Wells
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We do not need the praises of a Homer, or of anyone else whose words may delight us for the moment, but the estimation of facts will fall short of what is really true.
Pericles
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A man who always talks for fame never can be pleasing. The man who talks to unburthen his mind is the man to delight you.
Samuel Johnson
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The Ladybug wears no disguises. She is just what she advertises. A speckled spectacle of spring, A fashion statement on the wing.... A miniature orange kite. A tiny dot-to-dot delight.
J. Patrick Lewis
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Grover and Nico came back from their walk, and Grover helped me fix up my wounded arm. It's green! Nico said with delight.
Rick Riordan
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The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
Jonathan Edwards
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Nor law, nor duty bade me fight, Nor public men, nor cheering crowds, A lonely impulse of delight Drove to this tumult in the clouds.
William Butler Yeats
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We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
e. e. cummings
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Count Dracula had directed me to go to the Golden Krone Hotel, which I found, to my great delight, to be thoroughly old-fashioned, for of course I wanted to see all I could of the ways of the country.
Helen Dunmore
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... the understatement, the self-ridicule, the delight in the foreignness of foreigners, the complete denial of any attempt to enlist the sympathies of his readers in the hardships he has capriciously invited.
Evelyn Waugh
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Sweets grown common lose their dear delight.
William Shakespeare
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Wisdom delights in water love delights in hills. Wisdom is stirring love is quiet. Wisdom is merry love grows old.
Confucius
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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.
Michael Chabon
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So now the floodgates are open to the delight of pure form, whatever its origin. Anything goes.
Philip Johnson
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By turns the nine delight to sing
Homer
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Strength of numbers is the delight of the timid. The Valiant in spirit glory in fighting alone.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Say, what other metre is it Than the meeting of the eyes? Nature poureth into nature Through the channels of that feature Riding on the ray of sight, Fleeter far than whirlwinds go, Or for service, or delight, Hearts to hearts their meaning show.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The delight we take in our senses is an implicit desire to know the ultimate reason for things, the highest cause. The desire for wisdom that philosophy etymologically is is a desire for the highest or divine causes. Philosophy culminates in theology. All other knowledge contains the seeds of contemplation of the divine.
Josef Pieper
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They love the country, and none else, who seek For their own sake its silence and its shade. Delights which who would leave, that has a heart Susceptible of pity, or a mind Cultured and capable of sober thought.
William Cowper
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The harmony of a concert, to which you listen with delight, must have on certain classes of minute animals the effect of terrible thunder perhaps it kills them.
Voltaire
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Reflection must be reserved for solitary hours whenever she was alone, she gave way to it as the greatest relief and not a day went by without a solitary walk, in which she might indulge in all the delight of unpleasant recollections.
Jane Austen
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The sublime delight of truthful speech to one who has the great gift of uttering it, will make itself felt even through the pangs of sorrow.
George Eliot
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There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm.
Theodore Roosevelt
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O Beloved of Hearts, I beseech only You. Have pity this day on those who turn to You. My Hope, my Rest, my Delight, this heart can love none other but You.
Rabia Basri
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