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• We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Heart, Grandparent

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.276, Penguin

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• Nature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of delight.

  Daniel Boone

  Wonder, Fund, Series

  Daniel Boone, Francis Lister Hawks (1996). “Daniel Boone: His Own Story”, p.3, Applewood Books

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• The aim of forensic oratory is to teach, to delight, to move.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Moving, Oratory, Teach

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• Intelligence is nothing without delight.

  Paul Claudel

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• The challenge before us is to savor the unknown and delight in the taste of possibility.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Challenges, Taste, Courageous

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, Conari Press

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• Each time, before you intercede, be quiet first, and worship God in His glory. Think of what He can do, and how He delights to hear the prayers of His redeemed people. Think of your place and privilege in Christ, and expect great things!

  Andrew Murray

  God, Faith, Christian

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• The ideal man is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy.

  Aristotle

  Single, Men, Silence

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• There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.

  Mencius

  Self, Examination, Sincerity

  Mencius, James Legge (1875). “The Life and Works of Mencius: With Essays and Notes”, p.345

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• Teach us delight in simple things, and mirth that has no bitter springs.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Spring, Teaching, Simple

  Puck of Pook's Hill (1906) "Children's Song"

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• The forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God; for they were the best he ever planted.

  John Muir

  God, Science, Men

  John Muir (1997). “John Muir: Nature Writings”, p.701, Library of America

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• These violent delights have violent ends.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Romeo And Juliet Love, Criminal Mind

  1595 Friar Laurence. Romeo andJuliet, act 2, sc.5, l.9.

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• What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?

  Edmund Spenser

  Fall, Liberty, Enjoy

  'Muiopotmos' l. 209

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• For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance.

  Margaret Cavendish

  Pleasure, Method, Felicity

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• I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pain of others

  Edmund Burke

  Pain, Real, Degrees

  Edmund Burke (1792). “The works of ... Edmund Burke [ed. by W. King and F. Laurence].”, p.106

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• From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.

  Lucretius

  Flower, Heart, Literature

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• Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

  Rose Kennedy

  Inspirational, Happiness, Nature

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• Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Life, Order, Imagination

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1989). “Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited”

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• To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.

  Jane Austen

  Life, Girl, Years

  Jane Austen (2006). “8 Books in 1: Jane Austen's Complete Novels. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady Susan, and Love an”, p.603, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• A lot of my characters in all of my books have a self-destructive urge. They'll do precisely the thing that they know is wrong, take a perverse delight in doing the wrong thing.

  Richard Russo

  Book, Character, Self

  FaceBook post by Richard Russo from May 29, 2011

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• Not by appointment do we meet Delight And Joy; they heed not our expectancy; But round some corner in the streets of life, They, on a sudden, clasp us with a smile.

  Gerald Massey

  Smile, Joy, Streets

  "The Poetical Works of Gerald Massey".

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• The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Change, Passion

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “This Matter of Culture”

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• Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Inspirational, Yoga, Focus And Concentration

  FaceBook post by Dr. Barbara De Angelis from May 20, 2014

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• Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Believe, People, Obscure

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook J 77, 1799.

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• As for plenty, we had not only for necessity, conveniency and decency, but for delight and pleasure to superfluity.

  Margaret Cavendish

  Pleasure, Plenty, Decency

  Margaret Cavendish (2000). “Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader”, p.42, Broadview Press

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• Why, all delights are vain, but that most vain Which, with pain purchased, doth inherit pain: As, painfully to pore upon a book, To seek the light of truth, which truth the while Doth falsely blind the eyesight of his look.

  William Shakespeare

  Pain, Book, Light

  William Shakespeare, H. R. Woudhuysen (1998). “Love's Labour's Lost: Third Series”, p.117, Cengage Learning EMEA

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