quotes about Delight
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All the world's bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
-- Abraham Cowley -
Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
-- Agnes Repplier -
In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.
-- Agnes Repplier -
Those persons are happiest in this restless and mutable world who are in love with change, who delight in what is new simply because it differs from what is old; who rejoice in every innovation, and find a strange alert pleasure in all that is, and that has never been before.
-- Agnes Repplier -
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You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite.
-- Alan Cohen -
As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence.
-- Alcibiades -
True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is in the pursuit.
-- Alexander Pope -
How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!
-- Alexander Pope -
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What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: "It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace." But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit; and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
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The delight that consumes the desire, The desire that outruns the delight.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne -
Some time all kinds of letters will be published to the ineffable delight of endless readers.
-- Alice B. Toklas -
Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially R. Crumb's stuff.
-- Alison Bechdel -
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Let us savour the swift delights of the most beautiful of our days!
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
Since His delights are to be with you, let yours be found in Him.
-- Alphonsus Liguori -
Not only is there no need of an intermediary through whom He would want you to speak to Him, but He finds His delight in having you treat with Him personally and in all confidence.
-- Alphonsus Liguori -
It is also very engaging - and a delight - to go back to Bangladesh as often as I can, which is not only my old home, but also where some of my closest friends and collaborators live and work.
-- Amartya Sen -
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If you admire yourself in the mirror, let it be in fear and not delight, because the only thing that beauty will bring to you is terror of losing it.
-- Amelie NothombSource : Amelie Nothomb (2007). “Fear and Trembling: A Novel”, p.68, Macmillan
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A sip is the most than mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott -
The books that charmed us in youth recall the delight ever afterwards; we are hardly persuaded there are any like them, any deserving our equal affections.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott -
How small these rescued tides appear! Earthly delights flow in torrents. Each object offers paradise.
-- Andre Breton -
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... God cometh sometimes unto the soul when it hath neither called, nor prayed unto, nor summoned Him. And He doth instil into the soul a fire and a love and a sweetness not customary, wherein it doth greatly delight and rejoice ... Thus doth the soul feel that God is mingled with it and hath made companionship with it.
-- Angela of Foligno -
No generous mind delights to oppress the weak, but rather to cherish and protect.
-- Anne Bronte -
I'd learned something... Food had power. It could inspire, astonish, shock, excite, delight and impress. It had the power to please me... and others. This was valuable information.
-- Anthony Bourdain -
It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!
-- Anthony de Mello -
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The ideal man is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy.
-- Aristotle -
For imitation is natural to man from his infancy. Man differs from other animals particularly in this, that he is imitative, and acquires his rudiments of knowledge in this way; besides, the delight in it is universal.
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'Tis the night - the night Of the grave's delight...
-- Arthur Cleveland Coxe -
To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.
-- Arthur SchopenhauerSource : Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Counsels and maxims (illustrated)”, p.39, Full Moon Publications
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It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison.
-- Ashley Montagu -
Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.
-- Barbara De Angelis -
Happiness is not the reward of virtue, but is virtue itself; nor do we delight in happiness because we restrain from our lusts; but on the contrary, because we delight in it, therefore we are able to restrain them.
-- Baruch Spinoza -
Either be a true friend or a mere stranger: a true friend will delight to do good--a mere stranger will do no harm.
-- Benjamin WhichcoteSource : Benjamin Whichcote (1753). “Moral and religious aphorisms collected from the manuscript papers of the reverend and learned Doctor Whichcote; and published in 1703, by Dr. Jeffery. Now re-published, with very large additions, ... by Samuel Salter, ... To which are added, Eight letter”, p.145
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There's a terrible delight in watching a rival sink without a trace
-- Bernard Hinault -
Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts.
-- Bernard TschumiSource : Bernard Tschumi (1996). “Architecture and Disjunction”, p.66, MIT Press
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A world without delight and without affection is a world destitute of value.
-- Bertrand Russell -
We have a God who delights in impossibilities.
-- Billy Sunday -
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It is the contest that delights us, and not the victory.
-- Blaise Pascal -
God delights in answering our impossible prayers.
-- Bob Goff -
What I've learned the more time I've spent following Jesus is that God delights in answering our impossible prayers.
-- Bob Goff -
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HubSpot's CRM and Sidekick are perfect for companies that want to transform how they attract, engage, and delight prospects, customers and leads and want sales technology that matches today's buying process.
-- Brian Halligan -
I flush with heaving passion's strange delight, Yet find contentment lost in appetite.
-- Brian Swimme -
Our only business is to love and delight ourselves in God.
-- Brother Lawrence -
If I were to be responsible for guiding souls, I would urge everyone to be aware of God's constant presence, if for no other reason than His presence is a delight to our souls and spirit.
-- Brother LawrenceSource : Brother Lawrence (2013). “The Brother Lawrence Collection”, p.59, Simon and Schuster
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The most valuable thing the Psalms do for me is to express the same delight in God which made David dance.
-- C. S. Lewis -
God loves us NOT because we're lovable, because He is love. Not because He needs to receive, because He delights to give.
-- C. S. Lewis -
Authority exercised with humility, and obedience accepted with delight are the very lines along which our spirits live.
-- C. S. Lewis -
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I love the vast surface of silence; and it is my chief delight to break it.
-- Carl Nielsen -
Pleasure is a sensation. It is written into our bodies; it is our experience of delight, of joy. ... Pleasure will become a marker, a compass pointing to emotional true north.
-- Carol Gilligan -
I delight in my family obligations, but they leave little time for breaks let alone quick trips across the country.
-- Carre OtisSource : "Speaking for the Silent" by Carre Otis, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 7, 2012.
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My lady's sparrow is dead, the sparrow which was my lady's delight
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A multitude of small delights constitute happiness
-- Charles BaudelaireSource : Charles Baudelaire (1951). “My heart laid bare, and other prose writings”
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What can an eternity of damnation matter to someone who has felt, if only for a second, the infinity of delight?
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When I begin to doubt my ability to work the word, I simply read another writer and know I have nothing to worry about. My contest is only with myself, to do it right, with power, and force, and delight, and gamble.
-- Charles Bukowski -
Delight itself, however, is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist.
-- Charles Darwin -
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Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.
-- Charles DickensSource : "Fictional character: Vincent Crummles". "Nicholas Nickleby", www.imdb.com. 2002.
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To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.
-- Charles Dickens -
There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.
-- Charles Dudley WarnerSource : Charles Dudley Warner (1874). “Baddeck, and that Sort of Thing”, p.16
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Hoeing in the garden on a bright, soft May day, when you are not obligated to, is nearly equal to the delight of going trouting.
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This is true religion, to approve what God approves, to hate what he hates, and to delight in what delights him
-- Charles HodgeSource : Charles Hodge (1841). “The Way of Life”, p.300
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We fear not God because of any compulsion; our faith is no fetter, our profession is no bondage, we are not dragged to holiness, nor driven to duty. No, our piety is our pleasure, our hope is our happiness, our duty is our delight.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
A child gets moral notions from the fairy-tales he delights in, as do his elders from tale and verse.
-- Charlotte Mason -
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Express your creativity. Delight in the mystery of your inner muse.
-- Cheryl Richardson -
Mortal beauty stings while it delights.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee -
She is sighing deeply now with sympathy and delight - the delight of an addict when someone else admits he's hooked, too.
-- Christopher Isherwood -
I am alive, he says to himself, I am alive! And life energy surges hotly through him, and delight, and appetite. How good to be in a body - even this old beat-up carcass - that still has warm blood and live ***** and rich marrow and wholesome flesh!
-- Christopher Isherwood -
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What a sweet and succulent morsel: so soft, so salty, so deliciously delectable, it makes me want to wiggle with delight. You should cook for me more often, Roran Stronghammer. Only next time, I think you should prepare several deer at once. Otherwise, I won't get a proper meal.' Roran hesitated, as if unable to decide whether her request was serious and, if so, how he could politely extricate himself froim such an unlooked -for and rather onerous obligation.
-- Christopher Paolini -
Life is not life at all without delight.
-- Coventry Patmore -
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God favors men and women who delight in being made worthy of happiness before the happiness itself.
-- Criss Jami -
Among the most remarkable features characterizing Zen we find these: spirituality, directness of expression, disregard of form or conventionalism, and frequently an almost wanton delight in going astray from respectability.
-- D.T. Suzuki -
...there is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful ones in meditation.
-- Dalai Lama -
It delights me that I don't fit the stereotype of an actress.
-- Danica McKellar -
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Nature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of delight.
-- Daniel BooneSource : Daniel Boone, Francis Lister Hawks (1996). “Daniel Boone: His Own Story”, p.3, Applewood Books
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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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The Wombat is a Joy, a Triumph, a Delight, a Madness!
-- Dante Gabriel RossettiSource : Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain), Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery (1973). “Dante Gabriel Rossetti, painter and poet”
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For an hour or more he was neither human nor vampire, just a howling, hungry creature of dark delights.
-- Darren Shan -
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God's love, and hence the love with which we come to love God, is eros and agape at once: a desire for the other that delights in the distance of otherness.
-- David Bentley Hart -
Oh! one hour with God infinitely exceeds all the pleasures and delights of this lower world.
-- David BrainerdSource : David Brainerd (1822). “Memoirs of the Rev. David Brainerd: Missionary to the Indians on the Borders of New-York, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania: Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary”, p.50
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God delights in revealing Himself to you when you are bold enough to bother Him. In fact, I think He would say that the only thing that bothers Him is when you don’t come to Him.
-- David Platt -
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 MayoSource : "Juicy, Sensuous, Tasty...and Healthy". Bikini Body Fitness by DeBarra Mayo, m.ujena.com, December 22, 2006.
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Gardening is ultimately a folly whose goal is to provide delight.
-- Deborah Needleman -
The LORD detests lying lips, but he delights in men who are truthful. PROVERBS 12:22
-- Deborah Smith -
Delight comes only when our soul dances and plays with another.
-- Deepak Chopra -
I get little kids who recognize me from 'Mary Poppins,' and it just delights me because it's our third generation.
-- Dick Van Dyke -
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To delight in the law of the Lord is to find our source of joy outside of ourselves.
-- Dillon Burroughs -
I saw satan laughing with delight The day the music died.
-- Don McLeanSource : Song: Miss American Pie, Album: American Pie
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The early Christians did not say, in dismay, 'Look what the world has come to,' but, in delight, 'Look what has come to the world!â€
-- E. Stanley Jones -
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I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that the delicate motion should reside in all the things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it.
-- Edmund BurkeSource : "Research in Nuclear Magnetism". Edward Mills Purcell's Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1952.
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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
-- Edmund Spenser -
I delight not in spreading any thing mysterious, for I consider it all lost time; but the things that all of us can see and know if we will.
-- Elias HicksSource : Elias Hicks (1828). “The Quaker, Being a Series of Sermons by Members of the Society of Friends ...”, p.223
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Those elegant delights of jig and vaulting.
-- Elijah FentonSource : William Congreve, Elijah Fenton (1779). “The Works of the English Poets”, p.333
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I guess what I want to learn is how to live in this world and enjoy its delights but also devote myself to God.
-- Elizabeth Gilbert -
By some ardent enthusiasts Chess has been elevated into a science or an art. It is neither; but its principal characteristic seems to be - what human nature mostly delights in - a fight.
-- Emanuel LaskerSource : Emanuel Lasker (1965). “Common Sense in Chess”, p.9, Courier Corporation
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Chess is neither a science nor an art. It is what human nature most delights in--a fight.
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My love for Heathchiff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.
-- Emily Bronte -