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Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
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Composition is, for the most part, an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity or resolution, and from which the attention is every moment starting to more delightful amusements.
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His enemies might have said before that he talked rather too much; but now he has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful.
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Ah, yet, e'er I descend to th' grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have. And a few Friends, and many Books both true, Both wise, and both delightful too. And since Love ne'er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as Guardian angels are, Only belov'd and loving me.
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At most, the greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and delightful conversation, but as morals for ornament, except they be so incorporated into the body of the world that they contribute something to the sustentation of the whole.
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Beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebullience, and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own right.
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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.
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Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. Reading is not an exception.
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Formerly we used to canonize our heroes. The modern method is to vulgarize them. Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable.
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Giving is not at all interesting; but receiving is, there is no doubt about it, delightful.
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He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.
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I always think that the most delightful thing about traveling is to always be running into Americans and to always feel at home.
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I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.
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It was delightful but, of course, it was pretty insulting to my professional reputation.
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Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.
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Loneliness is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is mature.
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Material things are delightful, but they're not important.
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No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.
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