"My liveliest delight was in having conquered myself."
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"These violent delights have violent ends."
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"The Lord delights in every little step you take."
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"Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man's appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table."
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"The Wombat is a Joy, a Triumph, a Delight, a Madness!"
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"The actual flower is the plant's highest fulfilment, and are not here exclusively for herbaria, county floras and plant geography: they are here first of all for delight."
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"It is also very engaging - and a delight - to go back to Bangladesh as often as I can, which is not only my old home, but also where some of my closest friends and collaborators live and work."
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"Exercise till the mind feels delight in reposing from the fatigue."
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"The universe must exist for the self-expression of God and the delight of God."
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"Every object, every being...is a jar full of delight."
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"The last of Summer is Delight - Deterred by Retrospect. 'Tis Ecstasy's revealed Review - Enchantment's Syndicate. To meet it - nameless as it is - Without celestial Mail - Audacious as without a Knock To walk within the Veil."
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"Everything that's lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight."
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"Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God. What then was the commencement of the whole matter? Existence that multiplied itself for sheer delight of being and plunged into numberless trillions of forms so that it might find itself innumerably."
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"The aim of forensic oratory is to teach, to delight, to move."
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"Happiness is not the reward of virtue, but is virtue itself; nor do we delight in happiness because we restrain from our lusts; but on the contrary, because we delight in it, therefore we are able to restrain them."
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"A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom."
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"My ability to get through my day greatly depends on the relationship that I have with other women...We have to be able to champion other women. We have to root for each other's successes and not delight in one another's failures."
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"The delight we inspire in others has this enchanting peculiarity that, far from being diminished like every other reflection, it returns to us more radiant than ever."
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"The spirit of delight comes in small ways."
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"Contentment, as it is a short road and pleasant, has great delight and little trouble."
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