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• Life delights in life.

  William Blake

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.203, Pearson Education

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• He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude.

  Aristotle

  Single, Men, Worst Enemy

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• You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite.

  Alan Cohen

  Kites, Littles, Gravity

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• Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

  Francis Bacon

  Ornaments, Study, Ability

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Studies'

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• I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below.

  Daniel Boone

  Summit, Astonishing, Rounds

  Daniel Boone, Francis Lister Hawks (1996). “Daniel Boone: His Own Story”, p.5, Applewood Books

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• Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Men, Afterlife, Long

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• When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Devouring

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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• Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage.

  Paul Engle

  Grief, Pages, Rage

  Paul Engle (1965). “A Woman Unashamed: And Other Poems”, New York, Random House

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• I delight in what I fear.

  Shirley Jackson

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• The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.

  Joseph Joubert

  Pain, Mind

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.141

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• There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Music, Sight, Singing

  Walter Savage Landor (1898). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”

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• I'm growing old, I delight in the past.

  Henri Matisse

  Past, Growing, Growing Old

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• From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born.

  Michelangelo

  Pain, Inspiration, Fountain

  Michelangelo Buonarroti (1960). “The Complete Poems of Michelangelo”

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• The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Excellence, Exaltation

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.229, Routledge

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• Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight.

  William Safire

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Knowing

  William Safire (1988). “Coming to terms”, Doubleday

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• These violent delights have violent ends And in their triump die, like fire and powder Which, as they kiss, consume

  William Shakespeare

  Kissing, Fire, Romeo And Juliet Love

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.149, Classic Books Company

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• By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Creative, Warp, Observation

  Letters and Social Aims "Quotation and Originality" (1876)

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• There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Beauty, Garden, Giving

  Gertrude Jekyll (2011). “Home and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Worker in Both”, p.277, Cambridge University Press

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• If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good.

  James Boswell

  World, Very Good, Virtuous

  James Boswell, Mark Harris (1981). “The heart of Boswell: six journals in one volume”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few.

  John Masefield

  Men, Poetry, Community

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• Twins are usually hailed with delight, because they swell the power of the family, though in some instances they are put to death.

  John Hanning Speke

  Twins, Instance

  John Hanning Speke (1863). “Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile”, p.19

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• Grace is the pleasure of God to magnify the worth of God by giving sinners the right and power to delight in God without obscuring the glory of God.

  John Piper

  Giving, Grace, Glory

  John Piper (2012). “The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God”, p.196, Multnomah

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• There is no joy for the one who does not bear sadness, there is no sweetness for the one who does not have patience, there is no delight for the one who does not suffer, and there is no relaxation for the one who does not endure fatigue.

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Sadness, Joy, Suffering

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• Why, all delights are vain; but that most vain, Which, with pain purchas'd, doth inherit pain.

  William Shakespeare

  Pain, Vain

  William Shakespeare (2015). “Peines d’amour perdues”, p.38, Editions Gallimard

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• Sweets grown common lose their dear delight.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Knowledge, Common

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.932

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