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• Fine taste is an aspect of genius itself, and is the faculty of delicate appreciation, which makes the best effects of art our own.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Appreciation, Art, Genius

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• The Spring is here--the delicate footed May,
  With its slight fingers full of leaves and flowers,
  And with it comes a thirst to be away.
  In lovelier scenes to pass these sweeter hours.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Spring, Flower, May

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1850). “The poetical works of N.P. Willis”, p.183

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• Fine declamation does not consist in flowery periods, delicate allusions of musical cadences, but in a plain, open, loose style, where the periods are long and obvious, where the same thought is often exhibited in several points of view.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Views, Long, Musical

  Oliver Goldsmith (1856). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Comprising His Poems, Comedies, Essays, and Vicar of Wakefield”, p.281

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• Wit is something more than a gymnastic trick of the intellect; true wit implies a beam of thought into the essence of a question, a flash that lights up a situation. Wit suggests the delicate but delightful play of a rapier in the hands of a master.

  Arthur Lynch

  Light, Hands, Essence

  Arthur Lynch (1921). “Moods of Life: Popular Psychological Studies of Affairs of Every Day”

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• In thought I am living wholly with Theo and Vincent, oh, the infinitely delicate, tender and lovely [quality] of that relation[ship].

  Johanna van Gogh-Bonger

  Lovely, Quality, Ships

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• Even today many educated people think that the victory of Christianity over Greek philosophy is a proof of the superior truth of the former - although in this case it was only the coarser and more violent that conquered the more spiritual and delicate. So far as superior truth is concerned, it is enough to observe that the awakening sciences have allied themselves point by point with the philosophy of Epicurus, but point by point rejected Christianity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Spiritual, Philosophy, Thinking

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.44, Cambridge University Press

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• Although the patriarchal ego prides itself on being reasonable, the twentieth century has been anything but the Age of Reason. In our collective neurosis, we have raped the earth, disrupted the delicate balance of nature, and created phallic missiles of mass destruction.

  Marion Woodman

  Pride, Mass Destruction, Ego

  "Dancing in the Flames". Book by Marion Woodman, 1996.

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• [Beauty is] a delicate bait with a deadly hook; a sweet panther with a devouring paunch, a sour poison in a silver pot.

  John Lyly

  Sweet, Bait, Poison

  John Lyly, Leah Scragg (2003). “John Lyly 'Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit' and 'Euphues and His England': An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition”, p.49, Manchester University Press

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• I am constantly astonished by the people, otherwise intelligent, who think that anything so complex and delicate as a marriage can be left to take care of itself. One sees them fussing about all sorts of lesser concerns, apparently unaware that side by side with them often in the same bed a human creature is perishing from lack of affection, of emotional malnutrition.

  Robertson Davies

  Intelligent, Emotional, Thinking

  "The Pleasures of Love". 1961.

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• Whoever declares a child to be "delicate" thereby crowns and anoints a tyrant.

  Robertson Davies

  Children, Tyrants, Crowns

  Robertson Davies (1996). “The Cunning Man”, Penguin Group USA

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• The sight filled the northern sky; the immensity of it was scarcely conceivable. As if from Heaven itself, great curtains of delicate light hung and trembled. Pale green and rose-pink, and as transparent as the most fragile fabric, and at the bottom edge a profound fiery crimson like the fires of Hell, they swung and shimmered loosely with more grace than the most skillful dancer.

  Philip Pullman

  Fire, Light, Sight

  Philip Pullman (1995). “Northern lights”

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• Relish the fresh landscape of my wound, break rushes and delicate rivulets, drink blood poured on honeyed thigh.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Blood, Landscape, Drink

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• The office of the lawyer ... is too delicate, personal and confident to be occupied by a corporation.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Office, Corporations, Lawyer

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• I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature, not even excepting the delicate creatures which bear them.

  Charles Lamb

  Sweet, Children, Bears

  Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia”, p.141

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• I seem to be a brief light that flashes but once in all the aeons of time a rare, complicated, and all-too-delicate organism on the fringe of biological evolution , where the wave of life bursts into individual, sparkling, and multicolored drops that gleam for a moment... only to vanish forever.

  Alan Watts

  Wave Of Life, Light, Forever

  Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.11, Souvenir Press

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• Virtue is not a mushroom, that springeth up of itself in one night when we are asleep, or regard it not; but a delicate plant, that groweth slowly and tenderly, needing much pains to cultivate it, much care to guard it, much time to mature it, in our untoward soil, in this world's unkindly weather.

  Isaac Barrow

  Pain, Night, Mushrooms

  Isaac Barrow (1831). “The works of Dr. Isaac Barrow”, p.241

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• There is in youth a purity of character which, when once touched and defiled, can never be restored; a fringe more delicate than frost-work, and which, when torn and broken, can never be re-embroidered.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Character, Broken, Frost

  Henry Ward Beecher (1859). “Summer in the soul; or, Views and experiences”, p.215

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• A Romantic ideology that predates rock glorifies the self-destructive artist as someone who's too honest and delicate for this world... It's not an easy job, and its stresses can take their toll.

  Jon Pareles

  Jobs, Stress, Artist

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• I think that as Christians we need to walk the delicate balance between standing in opposition to same-sex marriages and yet showing that we can do that without becoming angry or hateful.

  Erwin W. Lutzer

  Christian, Sex, Thinking

  Source: www1.cbn.com

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• Comedy is a very delicate business, especially comedies that sort of attempt to do things in an honest way and in a very naturalistic way the way that 'No Strings Attached' is.

  Ivan Reitman

  Strings Attached, Way, Comedy

  Source: collider.com

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• Wars are not favourable to delicate pleasures.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  War, Pleasure

  "A Secret Vice". Lecture in 1931. "The Monsters and the Critics, and Other Essays". Book edited by Christopher Tolkien, 1983.

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• The affected modesty of most women is a decoy for the generous, the delicate, and unsuspecting; while the artful, the bold, and unfeeling either see or break through its slender disguises.

  William Hazlitt

  Women, Break Through, Modesty

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.475

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• Here are sweet peas, on tiptoe for a flight; With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white, And taper fingers catching at all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings.

  John Keats

  Sweet, Wings, White

  John Keats, Helen Vendler (1990). “Poetry Manuscripts at Harvard”, p.34, Harvard University Press

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• When a dream is born in you With a sudden clamorous pain, When you know the dream is true And lovely, with no flaw nor stain, O then, be careful, or with sudden clutch You'll hurt the delicate thing you prize so much.

  Robert Graves

  Dream, Hurt, Pain

  Robert Graves, Beryl Graves, Dunstan Ward (1999). “Complete poems”, Carcanet Pr

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• The more delicate and ambitious the soul, the further do dreams estrange it from possible things.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Dream, Soul, Ambitious

  Charles Baudelaire (1925). “Les fleurs de mal: Petits poèmes en prose, Les paradis artificiels”

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