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That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?
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All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.
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All the world's bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
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Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.
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Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
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I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers.
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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.
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One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.
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Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts.
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The first painting that I realised I liked was 'The Garden of Earthly Delights' by Hieronymus Bosch, when I was six years old, at the Prado in Madrid. I still find myself returning there every time I'm in the city.
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The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.
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There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.
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Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.
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We are so presumptuous that we would wish to be known by all the world, even by people who shall come after, when we shall be no more; and we are so vain that the esteem of five or six neighbors delights and contents us.
Pensees (1669) -
When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.
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