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• Work is my recreation,
  The play of faculty; a delight like that
  Which a bird feels in flying, or a fish
  In darting through the water,--Nothing more.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Work, Play, Water

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2008). “Michael Angelo and Translations”, p.88, Wildside Press LLC

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• A man who always talks for fame never can be pleasing. The man who talks to unburthen his mind is the man to delight you.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Talking, Mind

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• And what the people but a herd confus'd,
  A miscellaneous rabble, who extol
  Things vulgar, and, well weigh'd, scarce worth the praise?
  They praise, and they admire, they know not what;
  And know not whom, but as one leads the other;
  And what delight to be by such extoll'd,
  To live upon their tongues, and be their talk,
  Of whom to be disprais'd were no small praise?

  John Milton

  People, Tongue, Praise

  John Milton (1831). “Milton's Poetical Works”, p.40

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• The shape and texture of fruit is sensuous and fascinating, but the true delight blossoms when you experience the flavor of these colorful gifts of nature.

  DeBarra Mayo

  Shapes, Fruit, Texture

  "Juicy, Sensuous, Tasty...and Healthy". Bikini Body Fitness by DeBarra Mayo, m.ujena.com, December 22, 2006.

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• Talent and generosity are needed to recognize talent and generosity in our companions; all is discord to an ear that has no idea of harmonies, but it needs a musical ear to delight in music.

  Julia McNair Wright

  Appreciation, Ideas, Generosity

  Julia McNair Wright (1895). “Ideal Homes, Or, Our Golden Mile-stones ...: A Volume of Practical Experices, Popularly Illustrated : Embracing All the Interests of the Household”

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• If customers say you're just 'all right', you've not done enough, you've failed to delight.

  Ron Kaufman

  Service Culture, Done, Enough

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• A: Set the pace and rule the race. Seek new ways to differentiate, new ways to surprise and delight your customers.

  Ron Kaufman

  Service Culture, Race, Way

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• If you want to stay in business, satisfy customers. If you want to excel in business, delight customers.

  Ron Kaufman

  Service Culture, Want, Customers

  "Lift Me UP! Service With A Smile". Book by Ron Kaufman, 2005.

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• Indeed, we may go further and assert that anyone who does not delight in fine actions is not even a good man.

  Aristotle

  Men, Good Man, Doe

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• In the human species at all events there is a great diversity of pleasures. The same things delight some men and annoy others, and things painful and disgusting to some are pleasant and attractive to others.

  Aristotle

  Men, Diversity, Events

  Aristotle (1934). “The Nicomachean ethics”

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• Thai food ain't about simplicity. It's about the juggling of disparate elements to create a harmonious finish. Like a complex musical chord it's got to have a smooth surface but it doesn't matter what's happening underneath. Simplicity isn't the dictum here, at all. Some westerners think it's a jumble of flavours, but to a Thai that's important, it's the complexity they delight in.

  David

  Thinking, Simplicity, Musical

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• We can consider the process of healthy growth to be a never ending series of free choice situations, confronting each individual at every point throughout his life, in which he must choose between the delights of safety and growth, dependence and independence, regression and progression, immaturity and maturity.

  Abraham Maslow

  Maturity, Safety, Choices

  Abraham H. Maslow (2013). “Toward a Psychology of Being”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

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• Study me, reader, if you delight in me, because on very few occasions shall I return to the world, and because the patience for this profession is found in very few, and only in those who wish to compose things anew. Come, oh men, to see the miracles that such studies will disclose to nature.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Men, Miracle, Wish

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• What induces a child to learn but his delight in knowing?

  Helen Keller

  Children, Knowing

  Helen Keller (2007). “My Religion”, p.170, Book Tree

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• The more hideous the mental contortions, the greater the delight and bravos of the mass.

  Emma Goldman

  Mass, Bravo, Hideous

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.40, 谷月社

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• I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism.

  Stanley Hauerwas

  Postmodernism, Controversy, Theologian

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• We delight in the mere sight of the delicate glow of fading rays clinging to the surface of a dusky wall, there to live out what little life remains to them.

  Junichiro Tanizaki

  Wall, Sight, Littles

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• Times of happiness, bliss, and sheer delight intensify as the higher levels of our minds are opened within us One our life on earth is over, these levels keep rising forever.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Forever, Mind, Rising

  Emanuel Swedenborg, George F. Dole, Gregory R. Johnson, Jonathan S. Rose (2003). “Divine Providence”, p.72, The Swedenborg Foundation

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• I came to the ... open gate of mathematics. From here, well-trodden paths lead in every direction, and since then I have often spent time there. Sometimes I think ... I have trodden all the paths ... and then I suddenly discover a new path and experience fresh delights.

  M. C. Escher

  Thinking, Path, Sometimes

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• ... the word "theory" ... was originally an Orphic word, which Cornford interprets as "passionate sympathetic contemplation" ... For Pythagoras, the "passionate sympathetic contemplation" was intellectual, and issued in mathematical knowledge ... To those who have reluctantly learnt a little mathematics in school this may seem strange; but to those who have experienced the intoxicating delight of sudden understanding that mathematics gives, from time to time, to those who love it, the Pythagorean view will seem completely natural.

  Bertrand Russell

  School, Views, Giving

  Bertrand Russell (2008). “History of Western Philosophy”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• Let him cry whoever feels like crying, for we were animals before we became reasoning beings, and the shedding of a tear, whether of forgiveness or of pity or of sheer delight at beauty, will do him a lot of good.

  Lin Yutang

  Animal, Tears, Cry

  Lin Yutang (1940). “With Love and Irony”

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• Oh, flatter me; for love delights in praises.

  William Shakespeare

  Flattery, Praise

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.25

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• Tightly-plotted, well-researched and beautifully drawn, this book is a real delight. Garen Ewing's mix of engaging characters, exciting old-school adventure, attractive ligne claire artwork and fluid storytelling makes The Rainbow Orchid easily one of the best graphic novels of the year.

  Bryan Talbot

  Real, Book, Character

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• Frederick Buechner can find grace and redemption even in the shoddiest, phoniest aspects of a cultural wasteland. One reads Lion Country...with hope and delight.

  Louis Auchincloss

  Country, Grace, Redemption

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• The effect of speech upon the condition of the soul is comparable to the power of drugs over the nature of bodies. For just as different drugs dispel different secretions from the body, and some bring an end to disease and others to life, so also in the case of speeches, some distress, others delight, some cause fear, others make the hearers bold, and some drug and bewitch the soul with a kind of evil persuasion.

  Gorgias

  Evil, Drug, Soul

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