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• If you desire to know or learn anything to your advantage, then take delight in being unknown and unregarded. A true understanding and humble estimate of oneself is the highest and most valuable of all lessons.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Humble, Understanding, Desire

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• The Eucharist, behold the Christian's treasure, his delight on earth. Since Jesus is in the Eucharist for him personally, his whole life ought to be drawn to it like a magnet to its center.

  Peter Julian Eymard

  Christian, Jesus, Treasure

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• On a feeling and sensitive mind a demolished forest impresses unmingled sadness, whereas its primeval grandeur must inspire anyone to immeasurable delight, who is susceptible to the beauties of nature.

  Ferdinand von Mueller

  Beauty, Sadness, Inspire

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• The person who loves God cannot help loving every man as himself, even though he is grieved by the passions of those who are not yet purified. But when they amend their lives, his delight is indescribable and knows no bounds. A soul filled with thoughts of sensual desire and hatred is unpurified. If we detect any trace of hatred in our hearts against any man whatsoever for committing any fault, we are utterly estranged from love for God, since love for God absolutely precludes us from hating any man.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Love, Christian, Hate

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• Those truffled turkeys, of which the reputation and the price are still increasing, appear like beneficient stars, and make the eyes sparkle of all sorts of gourmands of every category, whilst their faces beam with delight and they themselves dance with pleasure.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Stars, Food, Eye

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• Who cares for Algebra?Who delights in solving math?I only want to live my lifeAlong the creative path.

  Jennifer Niven

  Math, Creative, Who Cares

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• People who blame the Bible for the modern destruction of nature have failed to see its delight in the variety and individuality of creatures and its insistence upon their holiness. But that delight-in, say, the final chapters of Job or the 104th Psalm-is far more useful to the cause of conservation than the undifferentiating abstractions of science... Reverence gives standing to creatures, and to our perception of them, just as the law gives standing to a citizen.

  Wendell Berry

  Jobs, Animal, Law

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• The world exists, not for what it means but for what it is. The purpose of mushrooms is to be mushrooms, wine is in order to be wine: things are precious before they are contributory. It is a false piety that walks through creation looking only for lessons which can be applied somewhere else. To be sure, God remains the greatest good; but, for all that, the world is still good in itself. Indeed, since He does not need it, its whole reason for being must lie in its own natural goodness; He has no use for it, only delight.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Lying, Wine, Mean

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• The delight that consumes the desire, The desire that outruns the delight.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Desire, Outrun

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (1873). “Poems and Ballads”, p.182

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• Simply to have all the necessities of life and three meals a day will not bring happiness. Happiness is hidden in the unnecessary and in those impractical things that bring delight to the inner person. . . . When we lack proper time for the simple pleasures of life, for the enjoyment of eating, drinking, playing, creating, visiting friends, and watching children at play, then we have missed the purpose of life. Not on bread alone do we live but on all these human and heart-hungry luxuries.

  Edward M Hays

  Happiness, Children, Drinking

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• The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence.

  George Eliot

  Mother, Animal, Love Is

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.15

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• What furniture can give such finish to a room as a tender woman's face? And is there any harmony of tints that has such stirring of delight as the sweet modulation of her voice?

  George Eliot

  Sweet, Voice, Giving

  George Eliot (1876). “Daniel Deronda”, Dawson Brothers

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• The moving accident is not my trade; To freeze the blood I have no ready arts: 'Tis my delight, alone in summer shade, To pipe a simple song for thinking hearts.

  William Wordsworth

  Summer, Song, Art

  'Hart-leap Well' (1800) pt. 2, l.1

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• As high as we have mounted in delight, In our dejection do we sink as low.

  William Wordsworth

  Change, Lows

  William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth (1815). “Poems”, p.28

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• A heightened sense of the observation of nature is one of the chief delights that have come to me through trying to paint.

  Winston Churchill

  Trying, Paint, Chiefs

  Sir Winston Churchill, Andrew Scotland (1965). “Churchill on men and events: a selection from "Thoughts and adventures" and "Great contemporaries"”

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• There is no man so blessed that some who stand by his deathbed won't hail the occasion with delight.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Blessed, Men, Dying

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• Of journeying the benefits are many: the freshness it bringeth to the heart, the seeing and hearing of marvelous things, the delight of beholding new cities, the meeting of unknown friends, and the learning of high manners.

  Saadi

  Travel, Heart, Cities

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• It does not at first appear that an astronomer rapt in abstraction, while he gazes on a star, must feel more exquisite delight than a farmer who is conducting his team.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Stars, Team, Atheism

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• Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, War, Joy

  Sonnet 8

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• Hear the sledges with the bells, Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night, While the stars that oversprinkle All the Heavens seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight: Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells From the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells-- From the jingling and the tingling of the bells.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Stars, Night, Air

  "The Bells" l. 6 (1849)

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• Hear the mellow wedding bells, Golden bells! What a world of happiness their harmony foretells Through the balmy air of night How they ring out their delight! From the molten golden notes, And all in tune What a liquid ditty floats To the turtle-dove that listens while she gloats On the moon!

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Moon, Night, Turtles

  Edgar Allan Poe, “The Bells”

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• HELPED are those who are shown the existence of the Creator's magic in the Universe; they shall experience delight and astonishment without ceasing.

  Alice Walker

  Magic, Astonishment, Existence

  Alice Walker (1990). “The Temple of My Familiar”

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• And there my little doves did sit With feathers softly brown And glittering eyes that showed their right To general Nature's deep delight.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Eye, Littles, Dove

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning (1872). “A Selection from the Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning”, p.142

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• There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change of circumstances and varieties of fortune.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Change, Fortune, Circumstances

  "Epistles", V. 12, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 93-96,

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• Friendship, peculiar boon of Heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied.

  Samuel Johnson

  Angel, Pride, Men

  Samuel Johnson (1820). “The Poems of Dr. Samuel Johnson. To which is Prefixed, a Life of the Author”, p.41

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