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Tag Name "Delight" (1064)

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We delight in the mere sight of the delicate glow of fading rays clinging to the surface of a dusky wall, there to live out what little life remains to them.
Junichiro Tanizaki
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Often a retrospect delights the mind.
Dante Alighieri
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There should be hours for necessities, not for delights times to repair our nature with comforting repose, and not for us to waste these times.
William Shakespeare
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Oh, Liberty! thou goddess heavenly bright! Profuse of bliss, and pregnant with delight! Eternal pleasures in thy presence reign, And smiling plenty leads thy wanton train.
Joseph Addison
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I can say now is that sneaking up on people is a major delight in my old age, but it always has been. A desire, even a need, to shock.
Patricia McConnell
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The thing I remember best about successful people I've met all through the years is their obvious delight in what they're doing and it seems to have very little to do with worldly success. They just love what they're doing, and they love it in front of others.
Fred Rogers
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... me He now delights to spare.
Charles Wesley
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Finished things cease to be a shelter for the spirit but work in progress is a delight.
Max Frisch
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There where the course is, Delight makes all of the one mind, The riders upon the galloping horses, The crowd that closes in behind.
William Butler Yeats
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To stand by the beds at sunrise and see the flowers awake is a heavenly delight.
Celia Thaxter
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Prayer delights God's ear it melts His heart and opens His hand. God cannot deny a praying soul.
Thomas Watson
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The challenge before us is to savor the unknown and delight in the taste of possibility.
Mary Anne Radmacher
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Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
John Denham
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Thus suicidal selfishness, that blights The fairest feelings of the opening heart, Is destined to decay, whilst from the soil Shall spring all virtue, all delight, all love, And judgment cease to wage unnatural war With passion's unsubduable array.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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As children gath'ring pebbles on the shore. Or if I would delight my private hours With music or with poem, where so soon As in our native language can I find That solace?
John Milton
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When a woman starts talking about her duty, her regard for appearances, and her respect for religion, she raises so many bulwarks which she delights to see captured by storm.
Honore de Balzac
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The delight we find in art amounts to recognition of a saving grace, to an acknowledgment that the problem of life has a solution implicit in its own nature, though not yet formulated by the intellect.
Rebecca West
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You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
Samuel Johnson
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In the garden of tabloid delight, there is always a clean towel and another song.
Lewis H. Lapham
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Once upon a time fairy tales were told to audiences of young and old alike. It is only in the last century that such tales were deemed fit only for small children, stripped of much of their original complexity, sensuality, and power to frighten and delight.
Terri Windling
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Satan delights in homosexual perversion because it not only exists outside of marriage, but it also defiles God' very image reflected as male and female.
Andrew Comiskey
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No generous mind delights to oppress the weak, but rather to cherish and protect.
Anne Bronte
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The shape and texture of fruit is sensuous and fascinating, but the true delight blossoms when you experience the flavor of these colorful gifts of nature.
DeBarra Mayo
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Since His delights are to be with you, let yours be found in Him.
Alphonsus Liguori
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