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"If I were to be responsible for guiding souls, I would urge everyone to be aware of God's constant presence, if for no other reason than His presence is a delight to our souls and spirit."
"The fable runs that the gods mix our pains and pleasure in one cup, and thus mingle for us the adulterate immortality which we alone are permitted here to enjoy. Voluptuous raptures, could we prolong these at pleasure, would dissipate and dissolve us. A sip is the most that mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight."
"The books that charmed us in youth recall the delight ever afterwards; we are hardly persuaded there are any like them, any deserving our equal affections."
"He exulted in the possession of himself once more; he realized how much of the delight of the world he had lost when he was absorbed in that madness which they called love; he had had enough of it; he did not want to be in love anymore if love was that."
"And a summit and flower there is the feeling they have for each other, And they are to branch boundlessly out of that lesson until it becomes omnific, And until one and all shall delight us, and we them."
"If an Artist love his Art for its own sake, he will delight in excellence wherever he meets it, as well in the work of another as in his own."
"A lonely impulse of delight"
"The labor we delight in physics [cures] pain."
"Every natural power exhilarates; a true talent delights the possessor first."
"Not the sun or summer alone, but every hour and season yields its tribute of delight."
"The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem."
"If the East loves infinity, the West delights in boundaries."
"The poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should delight him."
"The have a good friend is one of the greatest delights of life."
"When I have attempted to join myself to others by services, it proved an intellectual trick,-no more. They eat your service like apples, and leave you out. But love them, and they feel you, and delight in you all the time."
"There is in this world no real delight (excepting those of sensuality), but exchange of ideas in conversation."
"To communicate is our chief business; society and friendship our chief delights; and reading, not to acquire knowledge, not to earn a living, but to extend our intercourse beyond our own time and province."
"The delight we find in art amounts to recognition of a saving grace, to an acknowledgment that the problem of life has a solution implicit in its own nature, though not yet formulated by the intellect."
"That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight."
"Taking delight in the journey takes confidence. It pushes the envelope of design."
