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• Wishes, like painted landscapes, best delight,
  Whilst distance recommends them to the sight.
  Plac'd afar off, they beautiful appear:
  But show their coarse and nauseous colors near.

  Thomas Yalden

  Beautiful, Distance, Sight

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• I do not know what arguments mean in reference to any expression of a thought. I delight in telling what I think; but if you ask me how I dare say so, or why it is so, I am the most helpless of men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mean, Men, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Myerson (2013). “The Selected Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.190, Columbia University Press

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• One more royal trait properly belongs to the poet. I mean his cheerfulness, without which no man can be a poet,--for beauty is his aim. He loves virtue, not for its obligation, but for its grace; he delights in the world, in man, in woman, for the lovely light that sparkles from them. Beauty, the spirit of joy and hilarity, he sheds over the universe.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mean, Men, Light

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures”, p.123, Harvard University Press

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• There should be hours for necessities, not for delights; times to repair our nature with comforting repose, and not for us to waste these times.

  William Shakespeare

  Comforting, Waste, Bed

  William Shakespeare (1836). “Dramatical Works: King Henry the Eighth”, p.79

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• All sense of hearing and of sight enfold in the serene delight and quietude of sleep.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sleep, Sight, Hearing

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1875). “The Masque of Pandora: And Other Poems”, p.44

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• It's hard to think of a 16-month child being anything other than a delight to be around.

  Gerry Adams

  Children, Thinking, Months

  "The survivor" by Simon Hattanstone, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2001.

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• Children have an anxious concern for living beings, and the satisfaction of this instinct fills them with delight. It is therefore easy to interest them in taking care of plants and especially of animals. Nothing awakens foresight in a small child such as this. When he knows that animals have need of him, that little plants will dry up if he does not water them, he binds together with a new thread of love today's passing moments with those of the morrow.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Animal, Dry Up

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• If H. P. Lovecraft and H. L. Mencken had ever collaborated, they might have come up with something like The Edge of Reason. This one will delight thinkers-and outrage true believers-of all stripes.

  George R. R. Martin

  Stripes, Might, Lovecraft

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• For more than thirty years, Joe Eck and Wayne Winterrowd have been gardening with extraordinary, indeed legendary, results. Part memoir, part omnium-gatherum of horticultural wisdom and practical advice, Our Life in Gardens is at once literate, learned, sensible, and, often, sheer luscious poetry. There are delights to be sampled on every page. From a cultivated life, they have brought forth, once again, a cultivated book.

  Philip Gambone

  Book, Garden, Years

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• Rosanne Daryl Thomas's tale of her enchantment by bees is a delight to read. It also contains close observations of the natural world, tales of failure and triumph with the hives, and a stellar cast of characters that includes her daughter, their cats, the hapless Farmer Tom, Pete the crossing guard, and, most important, the Bee Master. Every word tastes sweet as honey.

  Janet Lembke

  Daughter, Sweet, Character

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• I do not doubt that services like social games and coupons bring delight to peoples lives, and I mean no disrespect to the hard work that has made them possible. But in the face of threats to humanitys future on the one hand and the extraordinary potential of mankind on the other, at some point we must ask: are we capable of more?

  Justin Rosenstein

  Hard Work, Mean, Hands

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• To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.

  Charles Dickens

  Games, Words Of Wisdom, Growing

  Charles Dickens (1872). “A Cyclopedia of the Best Thoughts of Charles Dickens”, p.246

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• In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not forecasted, happenings without explanation, retrospective.

  Alan Lightman

  Artist, Events, World

  Alan Lightman (2011). “Einstein's Dreams”, p.29, Vintage

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