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• Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Change, Philosophical, Grief

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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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• And so my militant philosophy is this: to make with a brush on canvas is a simple direct delight-to make with the movie is the same.

  Norman McLaren

  Philosophy, Simple, Canvas

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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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• 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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• Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.

  Ben Jonson

  Punishment, Mind, Vices

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1857). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.202

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• And I feel that we in our society should not be held by any such myth; that we should do everything we can to gain a delight and joy in our society with all the available parts of the palette.

  Minoru Yamasaki

  Artist, Joy, Our Society

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• A sip is the most than mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Mortals

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• The last excessive feelings of delight are always grave.

  Leigh Hunt

  Feelings, Lasts, Graves

  Leigh Hunt (1870). “Table-talk: To which are Added Imaginary Conversations of Pope and Swift”, p.28

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• The true spirit of delight...is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.

  Bertrand Russell

  Spirit, Mathematics, Found

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• Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Revenge, Despair, Literature

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• War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Peace, War, Games

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.29, Wordsworth Editions

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• When you are sorrowful, look again.

  Khalil Gibran

  Sympathy, Condolences, Death Of A Loved One

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't we?

  Rose Kennedy

  Adversity, Bird, Singing

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• Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

  Emily Dickinson

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Truth

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• A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Sad, Men, Looks

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• The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

  Robert Frost

  Confusion, Ends, Figures

  Collected Poems preface (1939)

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• He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.

  George Sand

  Poetry, Noble, Lines

  George Sand (1800). “The Haunted Pool: (La Mare Au Diable).”, p.20

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• What's wrong with this egotism? If a man doesn't delight in himself and the force in him and feel that he and it are wonders, how is all life to become important to him?

  Sherwood Anderson

  Men, Ego, Important

  Sherwood Anderson (1947). “The Sherwood Anderson reader”

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• There is space within sisterhood for likeness and difference, for the subtle differences that challenge and delight; there is space for disappointment-and surprise.

  Christine Downing

  Disappointment, Sisterhood, Differences

  Christine Downing (1988). “Psyche's Sisters: Re-Imagining the Meaning of Sisterhood”, Burns & Oates

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• My lady's sparrow is dead, the sparrow which was my lady's delight

  Catullus

  Sparrows

  Carmina no. 3

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• I actually remember feeling delight, at two o'clock in the morning, when the baby woke for his feed, because I so longed to have another look at him.

  Margaret Drabble

  Positive, Baby, Morning

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• Count Dracula had directed me to go to the Golden Krone Hotel, which I found, to my great delight, to be thoroughly old-fashioned, for of course I wanted to see all I could of the ways of the country.

  Helen Dunmore

  Country, Literature, Golden

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• God created me to delight people with my goals.

  Romario

  People, Goal

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• Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

  George Eliot

  Friendship, Agreement, Cute Friendship

  George Eliot (1997). “Felix Holt, the Radical”, p.105, Wordsworth Editions

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