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Tag Name "Delight" (1064)

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You look at any poetic creature: muslin, ether, demigoddess, millions of delights then you look into the soul and find the most ordinary crocodile!
Anton Chekhov
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Enjoy thankfully any happy hour heaven may send you, nor think that your delights will keep till another year.
Horace
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Today I told myself that in actual fact anyone who takes an innocuous and random delight in his life is an absolute lummox.
Robert Walser
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These studies are a spur to the young, a delight to the old: an ornament in prosperity, a consoling refuge in adversity they are pleasure for us at home, and no burden abroad they stay up with us at night, they accompany us when we travel, they are with us in our country visits.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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My heart swelled with uncontrollable delight.
John James Audubon
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Gail Sheehy tells us that the delights of self-discovery are always available. All Fools' Day is the perfect day to engrave this wisdom in our hearts.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
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For once, his vampire expression failed him. His response was right there on his face, in full view and easily read. He went from surprise to disbelief then hope and sheer, utter joy all within a split second of each other, then he let loose a huge whoop of delight and swept me into his arms, hugging me fiercely.
Keri Arthur
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A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
Baron de Montesquieu
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He believes in romance. He isn't merely going through the mechanical movements of a man in an exciting situation. He is, vitally and positively squeezing the last drop of delight from living the best life he knows in the best way he can.
Leslie Charteris
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Oh! don't you remember sweet Alice, Ben Bolt, Sweet Alice, whose hair was so brown, Who wept with delight when you gave her a smile, And trembled with fear at your frown?
Thomas Dunn English
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Sometimes an old idea gets relegated to the back of the line in the mad delight of a new idea, one you've never had before, and that you write fast in the thrill of the new. No rules. Just stories, and you tell as many of them as you can.
Neil Gaiman
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Akmon squealed with delight. “I knew you were as smart as Hercules! I will call you Black Bottom, the Sequel!
Rick Riordan
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Let dogs delight to bark and bite, for God hath made them so.
Isaac Watts
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We regard prayer no longer as a duty which must be performed, but rather as a privilege which is to be enjoyed, a rare delight that is always revealing some new beauty.
Edward McKendree Bounds
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Ah! the terror and the delight of that moment when first we fear ourselves! Until then we have not lived.
Willa Cather
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On a feeling and sensitive mind a demolished forest impresses unmingled sadness, whereas its primeval grandeur must inspire anyone to immeasurable delight, who is susceptible to the beauties of nature.
Ferdinand von Mueller
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A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise... Because this is how life is full of surprises.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Among the several kinds of beauty, the eye takes most delight in colors.
Joseph Addison
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What stirs lyrical poets to their finest flights is neither the delight of the senses nor the fruitful contentment of the settled couple not the satisfaction of love, but its passion. And passion means suffering.
Denis de Rougemont
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Do you know why I stopped being Delight, my brother? I do. There are things not in your book. There are paths outside this garden.
Neil Gaiman
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God delights to disappoint man's fears.
Lettie Cowman
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Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.
Blaise Pascal
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Always remember that the ocean delights in feeling your feet in her eternal bath.
Robert Wyland
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When you enchant people, your goal is not to make money from them or to get them to do what you want, but to fill them with great delight.
Guy Kawasaki
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