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• Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.

  Martin Luther

  Music, Beautiful, God

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• Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.

  James Russell Lowell

  Life, Death, Night

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• It was a delightful visit;-perfect, in being much too short.

  Jane Austen

  Perfect, Too Short

  Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Complete Collection Deluxe Unabridged (annotated): [All 18 Works - Novels -Short Stories–Letters –Unfinished Works - Scraps]]”, p.919, BookBaby

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• The delightful study of the Psalms has yielded me boundless profit and ever-growing pleasure; common gratitude constrains me to communicate to others a portion of the benefit, with the prayer that it may induce them to search further for themselves.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Gratitude, Prayer, Benefits

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1870). “The Treasury of David: Spurgeon's Classic Work on the Psalms”, p.12, Kregel Academic

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• I've occasionally been wrong about certain things, which is in a way more delightful than being right.

  Jaron Lanier

  Way, Certain

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• Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.

  Helen Keller

  Eye, Sight, Literature

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• No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Garden, Culture, Earth

  Thomas Jefferson (1855). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”, p.6

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• Praise and blame alike mean nothing. No, delightful as the pastime of measuring may be, it is the most futile of all occupations, and to submit to the decrees of the measurers the most servile of attitudes.

  Virginia Woolf

  Attitude, Mean, Occupation

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “A Room of One's Own: And Three Guineas”, p.80, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime; that is, it is productive of the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling... When danger or pain press too nearly, they are incapable of giving any delight, and are simply terrible; but at certain distances, and with certain modifications, they may be, and they are, delightful, as we every day experience.

  Edmund Burke

  Pain, Ideas, Giving

  "A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful". Treatise by Edmund Burke, www.bartleby.com. 1757.

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• She stretched out her hand, saying, “Vernon! My dear, what a delightful surprise!” “What’s surprising about it?” he enquired, lifting his black brows. “Didn’t you ask me to come?” The smile remained pinned to Lady Buxted’s lips, but she replied with more than a touch of acidity: “To be sure I did, but so many days ago that I supposed you had gone out of town!” “Oh, no!” he said, returning her smile with one of great sweetness.

  Georgette Heyer

  Hands, Black, Gone

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• The past is so reliable, so delightful and the best place to live.

  Barry Humphries

  Past, Best Place, Places To Live

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• Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.

  Ava Gardner

  Perfect, Water, Doing Nothing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You might as well take the sun out of the sky as friendship from life: for the immortal gods have given us nothing better or more delightful.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Sky, Might, Sun

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.3041, Delphi Classics

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• Just after I entered my teens I suddenly entertained an insatiable enthusiasm for the delightful habit of criticizing others.

  Loretta Young

  Teens, Enthusiasm, Habit

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• I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

  Oscar Wilde

  Tragedy, Bores

  'A Woman of No Importance' (1893) act 3

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• Expanding the Toronto Island Airport will undermine the downtown's economy and liveability and intensify pollution and smog from Oshawa to Oakville. I urge Torontonians to close down this dangerous Trojan horse and get on with planning constructive and delightful ways of using our magnificent lakeside assets.

  Jane Jacobs

  Horse, Islands, Airports

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• I don't get recognized much, and am very happy with that. The fans I have met have all been delightful.

  David Walliams

  Fans, Mets, Very Happy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• That would be delightful,' agreed Flora, thinking how nasty and boring it would be.

  Stella Gibbons

  Thinking, Would Be, Nasty

  Stella Gibbons (1977). “Cold comfort farm”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• It is the most delightful thing that ever happens to me, when I hear something coming out of my guitar and out of my mouth that wasn't there before.

  James Taylor

  Guitar, Mouths, Coming Out

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Reviewing the day's lessons. Isn't it joyful? Friends come from far. Isn't it delightful? One has never been angry at other's misunderstanding. Isn't he a respectable man?

  Confucius

  Men, Lessons, Joyful

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• Writing is a conversation with reading; a dialogue with thinking. All conversations with older people contain repetition. Some of the ideas mean a lot to me, just interesting, so I both embrace and attack the ideas because I found them, well, delightful.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Reading, Writing, Mean

  Nikki Giovanni (1994). “Racism 101”, William Morrow & Co

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• Her eye fell everywhere on lawns and plantations of the freshest green; and the trees, though not fully clothed, were in that delightful state when farther beauty is known to be at hand, and when, while much is actually given to the sight, more yet remains for the imagination.

  Jane Austen

  Eye, Sight, Hands

  Jane Austen, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Jane Austen: All novels, short stories, letters and poems”, p.918, GENERAL PRESS

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• The siesta provides a delightful detour from the working day and it also has a practical value as far as productivity is concerned. Winston Churchill had a good long siesta every day during the second world war and he said it was the thing that enabled him to cope with the pressure.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  War, Long, World

  "Idle thoughts" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2006.

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• What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.

  Edgar Degas

  Understanding, Charming, Conversation

  Edgar Degas (1948). “Letters”

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• Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation.

  Mason Cooley

  Literature, Innocence, Charming

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