Quotes with delight

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  • William Blake Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • William Hazlitt Gallantry to women - the sure road to their favor - is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Brenda Laurel Girls enjoy complex social interaction. Their verbal skills - and their delight in using them - develop earlier than boys'.
    Brenda Laurel
    American video game designer and researcher (1950 - )
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  • Jessamyn West Half, maybe more, of the delight of experience is to know what you are experiencing.
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    Jessamyn West
    American author of short stories and novels (1902 - 1984)
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  • Charles Dickens Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley He has outsoared the shadow of our night; envy and calumny and hate and pain, and that unrest which men miscall delight, can touch him not and torture not again; from the contagion of the world's slow stain, he is secure.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Ben Shapiro Hillary Clinton is not that fascinating a person. According to those who have spent time with her, she's harsh and demanding. According to those who haven't - like her husband - she's a delight.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Lord George Byron I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine - and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so -and now the dross is coming.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Oscar Wilde I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Charles Baudelaire I have cultivated my hysteria with delight and terror. Now I suffer continually from vertigo, and today, 23rd of January, 1862, I have received a singular warning, I have felt the wind of the wing of madness pass over me.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Jane Porter I never yet heard man or woman much abused, that I was not inclined to think the better of them; and to transfer any suspicion or dislike to the person who appeared to take delight in pointing out the defects of a fellowcreature.
    Jane Porter
    English writer (1776 - 1850)
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  • Vladimir Nabokov Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.
    Vladimir Nabokov
    American writer and poet (1899 - 1977)
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  • Henry Watton In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions: Commodity, Firmness and Delight.
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  • Anthony de Mello 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
    Indian Jesuit priest and psychotherapist (1931 - 1987)
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  • Amartya Sen 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
    Indian economist and philospher
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  • S. Maxwell Coder It is not a difficult matter to learn what it means to delight ourselves in the Lord. It is to live so as to please Him, to honor everything we find in His Word, to do everything the way He would like to have it done, and for Him.
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  • Thomas Hardy Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight.
    Thomas Hardy
    British writer and poet (1840 - 1928)
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  • Marcus Aurelius Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Alexander Smith Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
    Alexander Smith
    Scottish Poet, Author (1829 - 1867)
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  • Thomas Hobbes Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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