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• Young men, you who have any piety at all, what sort is it? Is it a hot-house plant, which must be framed and glassed, lest March, that bold young fellow, should shake the life out.of it in his rough play among the flowers? or is it a hardy shrub, which rejoices when the wild winds course along the heather or howl above the crest of Lebanon ' We need, believe me, the bravery of godliness to bear true witness for our Master now.

  William Morley Punshon

  Flower, Believe, Men

  William Morley Punshon (1873). “Lectures and Sermons”, p.9, Adam, Stevenson

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• The pride of the artisan in his art and its uses is pride in himself...It is in his skill and ability to make things as he wishes them to be that he rejoices.

  George Santayana

  Art, Pride, Skills

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• Surely there is a fitness in the institution of the Lord's Supper as a standing memorial by which the church at large may commemorate the grandest act, and by which the heart of each individual believer may be reminded of his dearest friend. You, who have learned to love the Saviour, will prize His ordinance for the Saviour's sake. You who rejoice in the salvation purchased by His dying, will not fail with gratitude and faith to show the Lord's death until He come.

  William Morley Punshon

  Gratitude, Heart, Memorial

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 371), 1895.

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• Shall we not rejoice then and revel in the glorious liberty of extract, and quote to the thousandth line? Shall we not have pages like the Pyramids?

  Samuel Laman Blanchard

  Pyramids, Liberty, Lines

  "Sketches from Life, Parts 1-2" by Laman Blanchard, 1846.

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• The transcendent and the numinous can be accessible to the most materialistic of scientists, without positing the supernatural. At the same time, there is no reason to mistrust the same experiences in believers simply because they posit a supernatural source. The question is not, "Does God exist?" It's irrelevant. The question is whether believers and nonbelievers can rejoice in the same experiences and not denigrate the other's explanation as to the origins of very powerful human responses.

  Norman Cota

  Powerful, Unity, Doe

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• Contemplate the marvel that is existence, and rejoice that you are able to do so.

  Ted Chiang

  Able, Existence, Contemplating

  "Exhalation". Short story by Ted Chiang, 2008.

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• Ignorance is mere privation by which nothing can be produced: it is a vacuity in which the soul sits motionless and torpid for want of attraction: and, without knowing why, we always rejoice when we learn, and grieve when we forget.

  Samuel Johnson

  Ignorance, Grieving, Knowing

  Samuel Johnson (2012). “Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• Rejoice in the works of your hands, be happy and thankful that you are valuable, that what you say and do insn't taken for a ride, that you have rejected the notion of self-doubt and fear, that God isn't blind towards propagating your positive influence, and finally that you'll leave a meritorious legacy.

  Michael Bassey

  Taken, Self, Hands

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• Emulation has been termed a spur to virtue, and assumes to be a spur of gold. But it is a spur composed of baser materials, and if tried in the furnace will be found to want that fixedness which is the characteristic of gold. He that pursues virtue, only to surpass others, is not far from wishing others less forward than himself; and he that rejoices too much at his own perfections will be too little grieved at the defects of other men.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Perfection, Gold

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.113

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  Too many of our countrymen rejoice in stupidity, look upon ignorance as a badge of honor. They condemn everything they don't understand.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Ignorance, Stupidity, Honor

  Tallulah Bankhead (1952). “Tallulah: My Autobiography”, p.303, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Golden volumes! richest treasures,
  Objects of delicious pleasures!
  You my eyes rejoicing please,
  You my hand in rapture seize!
  Brilliant wits and musing sages,
  Lights who beam'd through many ages!
  Left to your conscious leaves their story,
  And dared to trust you with their glory;
  And now their hope of fame achiev'd,
  Dear volumes! you have not deceived!

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Book, Eye, Light

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• A religious hope does not only bear up the mind under her sufferings but makes her rejoice in them.

  Joseph Addison

  Hope, Religious, Mind

  Joseph Addison (1764). “The Evidences of the Christian Religion: With Additional Discourses on the Following Subjects, Viz. Of God, and His Attributes, The Power and Wisdom of God in the Creation, The Providence of God, The Worship of God, Advantages of Revelation Above Natural Reason, Excellency of the Christian Institution, Dignity of the Scripture Language, Against Atheism and Infidelity, Against the Modern Free-thinkers, Immortality of the Soul, and a Future State, Death and Judgment”, p.227

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• God has chosen little nations as the vessels by which He carries His choicest wines to the lips of humanity to rejoice their hearts, to exalt their vision, to strengthen their faith, and if we had stood by when two little nations [Belgium and Serbia] were being crushed and broken by the brutal hands of barbarians, our shame would have rung down the everlasting ages.

  David Lloyd George

  War, Heart, Wine

  "The Great War". David Lloyd George's Speech delivered at the Queen's Hall, London, September 19, 1914.

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• Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

  Diane Ackerman

  Marriage, Children, Creative

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “One Hundred Names for Love: A Memoir”, p.15, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Rejoice, and men will seek you;
  Grieve, and they turn and go,
  They want full measure of all your pleasure,
  But they do not need your woe.
  Be glad, and your friends are many;
  Be sad, and you lose them all,--
  There are none to decline your nectar'd wine,
  But alone you must drink life's gall.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Friendship, Wine, Men

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.504, Delphi Classics

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• The sun rejoicing round the earth, announced
  Daily the wisdom, power and love of God.
  The moon awoke, and from her maiden face,
  Shedding her cloudy locks, looked meekly forth,
  And with her virgin stars walked in the heavens--
  Walked nightly there, conversing as she walked,
  Of purity, and holiness, and God.

  Robert Pollok

  Stars, Moon, Heaven

  Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, Reginald Heber, Robert Pollok (1831). “The poetical works of Hemans, Heber and Pollok”

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• Children have neither past nor future; and that which seldom happens to us, they rejoice in the present.
  [Fr., Les enfants n'ont ni passe ni avenir; et, ce qui ne nous arrive guere, ils jouissent du present.]

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Children, Past, Childhood

  "Les Caractères", XII, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 97-106,

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• Sometimes, with luck, we find the kind of true friend, male or female, that appears only two or three times in a lucky lifetime, one that will winter us and summer us, grieve, rejoice, and travel with us.

  Barbara Holland

  Friendship, Summer, True Friend

  Barbara Holland (1996). “One's Company: Reflections on Living Alone”

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• Rejoice that man is hurled, From change to change unceasingly, His soul's wings never furled!

  Robert Browning

  Men, Wings, Soul

  Robert Browning (1830). “An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry”, p.40

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• What signifies protesting so against flattery when a person speaks well of one, it must either be true or false, you know if true, let us rejoice in his good opinion if he lies, it is a proof at least that he loves more to please me, than to sit s

  Samuel Johnson

  Lying, Please Me, True Or False

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana: Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. Johnson”, p.58

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• A lost sheep is, for all practical purposes a dead sheep. It is the admission that we are dead in our sins---that we have no power of ourselves either to save ourselves or to convince anyone else that we are worth saving. It is the recognition that our whole life is out of our hands and that if we ever live again, our life will be entirely the gift of some gracious shepherd. God finds us the desert of death (not in the garden of improvement) and in the power of Jesus' resurrection, he puts us on his shoulders rejoicing and brings us home.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Jesus, Home, Garden

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• Don't let us rejoice in punishment, even when the hand of God alone inflicts it. The best of us are but poor wretches, just saved from shipwreck. Can we feel anything but awe and pity when we see a fellow-passenger swallowed by the waves?

  George Eliot

  Punishment, Hands, Wave

  George Eliot (1869). “Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.311

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• Every movement of the theater by a skilful poet is communicated, as it were, by magic, to the spectators; who weep, tremble, resent, rejoice, and are inflamed with all the variety of passions which actuate the several personages of the drama.

  David Hume

  Drama, Passion, Magic

  David Hume (1825). “Essays and treatises on several subjects: An inquiry concerning human understanding. A dissertation on the passions. An inquiry concerning the principles of morals. The natural history of religion”, p.258

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• None grieve so ostentatiously as those who rejoice most in heart.
  [Lat., Nulla jactantius moerent quam qui maxime laetantur.]

  Tacitus

  Grief, Heart, Grieving

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• The very large, very respectable, and very knowing class of misanthropes who rejoice in the name of grumblers,--persons who are so sure that the world is going to ruin, that they resent every attempt to comfort them as an insult to their sagacity, and accordingly seek their chief consolation in being inconsolable, their chief pleasure in being displeased.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Class, Names, Knowing

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1871). “Success and Its Conditions”, p.199

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