Quotes 61 till 80 of 81.
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The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.
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The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
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There is no delight in owning anything unshared.
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To business that we love, we rise betime and go to't with delight.
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To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
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To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight to the blood.
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To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.
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To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
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To work - to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.
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True disputants are like true sportsman: their whole delight is in the pursuit.
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Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, The lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.
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We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that can be apprehended; in a single being that includes all, above all in the one which is itself the all.
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We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
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When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
De Profeet (1923) p. 29 -
When your toil has been a pleasure, you have not earned money merely, but money, health, delight, and moral profit, all in one.
Familiar Studies of Men and Books: Stevenson's (2016) 65 -
Work is the order of the day, just as it was at one time, with our first starts and our best efforts. Do you remember? Therein lies its delight. It brings back the forgotten; one's stores of energy, seemingly exhausted, come back to life.
As quoted in The New York Times (1 January 1978) -
Working with the children on 'Matilda' has been a joy. They don't do this professionally - their sense of discovery is instinctive, and the challenge for us adults is to keep that going in ourselves when we're doing it for the fiftieth or the hundredth time. To my delight and amazement, it hasn't gone stale - we discover it freshly every time.
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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.
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You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite.
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