Quotes with delight

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• Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders.

  Louis D. Brandeis
  American lawyer and associate justice on the Supreme Court (1856 - 1941)
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• Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight.

  Milan Kundera
  Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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• Nothing remains with man unless it is insinuated with some delight.

  C. Patmore
   
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• 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
  American relationship consultant, lecturer and author (1951 - )
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• Poetry begins in delight and ends in wisdom

  Robert Frost
  American poet (1874 - 1963)
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• Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.

  Friedrich von Schiller
  German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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• Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.

  Dick Gregory
  African-American comedian, civil rights activist, social critic, writer and entrepreneur (1932 - 2017)
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• Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

  Samuel Pepys
  English administrator of the navy and Member of Parliament (1633 - 1703)
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• She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  Colombian writer (1927 - 2014)
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• Strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and wife gazing and smiling at them.

  Samuel Pepys
  English administrator of the navy and Member of Parliament (1633 - 1703)
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• Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

  Francis Bacon
  English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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• Sweets grown common lose their dear delight.

  William Shakespeare
  English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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• That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.

  Amos Bronson Alcott
  American educator and social reformer (1799 - 1888)
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• The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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• The brave love mercy, and delight to save.

  John Gay
  British playwright and poet (1685 - 1732)
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• The Goddess of Old Europe and Ancient Crete represented the unity of life in nature, delight in the diversity of form, the powers of birth, death and regeneration.

  Carol P. Christ
  American feminist historian and author (1945 - )
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• The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

  Bertrand Russell
  English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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• The labour we delight in physics pain

  William Shakespeare
  English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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• The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.

  Joseph Joubert
  French writer (1754 - 1824)
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• The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti
  Indian theosophist (1895 - 1986)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• consciousness
• extraordinary
• regeneration
• discovered
• friendship
• infliction

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