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• Energy is an eternal delight.

  William Blake

  Energy, Eternal

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• I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that this delicate motion should reside in all the ordinary things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it. I remember, in the winter of our first experiments, just seven years ago, looking on snow with new eyes. There the snow lay around my doorstep - great heaps of protons quietly precessing in the earth’s magnetic field. To see the world for a moment as something rich and strange is the private reward of many a discovery.

  Edward Mills Purcell

  Eye, Winter, Science

  "Research in Nuclear Magnetism". Edward Mills Purcell's Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1952.

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• Blue color is everlastingly appointed by the deity to be a source of delight.

  John Ruskin

  Blue, Color, Deities

  John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill (1872). “The True and the Beautiful in Nature, Art, Morals, and Religion, Selected from the Works of John Ruskin”, p.414

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• If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.

  William Congreve

  Love, Life, Heart

  William. II Congreve William Wycherley (John Vanbrugh and Farquhar George), William. II Wycherley, William Congreve, George Farquhar, John Vanbrugh (1840). “Dramatic Works with Biographical and Critical Notices by Leigh Hunt. - London, Moxon 1840”, p.273

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• Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

  Helen Keller

  Love, Beauty, Valentines Day

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• Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.

  George Henry Lewes

  Art, Book, Guidance

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• Well building hat three conditions. Commodity, firmness, and delight.

  Henry Wotton

  Hate, Hats, Three

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• As for our garments, my Mother did not only delight to see us neat and cleanly, fine and gay, but rich and costly: maintaining us to the heighth of her estate, but not beyond it.

  Margaret Cavendish

  Mother, Pride, Gay

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

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• May your season shine with delight and surprise.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Blessing, Shining, May

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• That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Funny, Book, Reading

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• The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Lying, Unique, Men

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• LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.

  Henry Fielding

  Love, Food, Kind

  Henry Fielding, Thomas Roscoe (1841). “The Works of Henry Fielding: Complete in One Volume”, p.683

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• Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.

  John Gay

  Love, Bravery, Coward

  John Gay, Nathaniel Cotton, Edward Moore (1826). “Gay's Fables and other poems: Cotton's visions in verse ; Moore's Fables for the female sex ; with sketches of the authors' lives”, p.20

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• The universe must exist for the self-expression of God and the delight of God.

  Ernest Holmes

  Self, Expression, Universe

  Ernest Holmes (1992). “Ideas of Power”, Devorss Publications

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• Lust is a pleasure bought with pains, a delight hatched with disquiet, a content passed with fear, and a sin finished with sorrow.

  Demonax

  Pain, Lust, Sorrow

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• There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign; Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain.

  Isaac Watts

  Pain, Night, Land

  Isaac Watts (1811). “Hymns and Spiritual Songs ... With some additional hymns, taken from the Doctor's sermons”, p.180

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• There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  History, Presidential, Environmental

  Theodore Roosevelt, H. W. Brands (2001). “African Game Trails: An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-naturalist”, p.21, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The woman is the most perfect doll that i have dressed with delight and admiration.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Fashion, Clothes, Perfect

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• It's a delight to trust somebody so completely.

  Jeff Goldblum

  Trust, Genocide

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• All men do not admire and delight in the same objects.

  Horace

  Men, Admire, Objects

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• Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

  Socrates

  Life, Beauty, Kindness

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• The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.

  Plutarch

  War, Fighting, Riches

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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; it enlarges the imagined range for self to move in: but in after years it can only continue to be joy on the same terms as other long-lived love--that is, by much suppression of self, and power of living in the experience of another.

  George Eliot

  Mother, Moving, Animal

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

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• Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the daylight of Life, which they are thenceforth to rule.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Fashion, Silence, Together

  "Sartor Resartus" by Thomas Carlyle, Book III, (Ch. 3), 1833-1834.

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• Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.

  George Henry Lewes

  Inspiring, Book, Companion

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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