"Without music we shall surely perish of drink, morphia, and all sorts of artificial exaggerations of the cruder delights of the senses."
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"The photograph is a coarse fraud, and seems to delight only in taking the whole beauty out of the picture."
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"Oh!” said she, “I heard you before, but I could not immediately determine what to say in reply. You wanted me, I know, to say ‘Yes,’ that you might have the pleasure of despising my taste; but I always delight in overthrowing those kind of schemes, and cheating a person of their premeditated contempt. I have, therefore made up my mind to tell you, that I do not want to dance a reel at all--and now despise me if you dare.” “Indeed I do not dare."
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"A man is really alive only when he delights in the good-will of others."
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"What shocks the virtuous philosopher, delights the chameleon poet."
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"We long for more and God's promise is that there is more awaiting us. More to delight us than we will ever exhaust."
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"If we want foxes, to observe and delight in, we must have hunting."
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"For love and beauty and delight, there is no death nor change."
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"So now the floodgates are open to the delight of pure form, whatever its origin. Anything goes."
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"Books delight to the very marrow of one's bones. They speak to us, consult with us, and join with us in a living and intense intimacy."
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"Nature delights in progress; in advance."
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"Felipe and I, as we discover to our delight, are a perfectly matched, genetically engineered belly-to-belly success story."
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"The more hideous the mental contortions, the greater the delight and bravos of the mass."
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"Delight in splendor is No more than happiness with little: for both Have their appeal."
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"It is the difference between men and women, not the sameness, that creates the tension and the delight."
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"I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all the extraneous delights should be withheld or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give."
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"To delight in the law of the Lord is to find our source of joy outside of ourselves."
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"A world without delight and without affection is a world destitute of value."
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"Shakespeare . . . If he does not give you delight, you had better ignore him [if you can]."
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"It is the contest that delights us, and not the victory."
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