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"I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that the delicate motion should reside in all the things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it."
"The delights of sight and hearing and touch will bear thy delight."
"If wisdom were offered me with the proviso that I should keep it shut up and refrain from declaring it, I should refuse. There's no delight in owning anything unshared."
"True friends are the whole world to one another; and he that is a friend to himself is also a friend to mankind. Even in my studies the greatest delight I take is of imparting it to others; for there is no relish to me in the possessing of anything without a partner."
"There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone."
"Instead of working so hard to prove the skeptics wrong, it makes a lot more sense to delight the true believers. They deserve it, after all, and they're the ones that are going to spread the word for you."
"Delight is incomplete until it is expressed."
"The most valuable thing the Psalms do for me is to express the same delight in God which made David dance."
"Share the wealth. Be generous with your joy. Give away what you most want. Be generous with your insights and delights."
"To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it."
"In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight."
"The interminable forests should become graceful parks, for use and delight."
"Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach."
"You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours."
"Gene Wilder characters wanted to be calm, but to the great delight of audiences, they rarely succeeded."
"Wisdom delights in water; love delights in hills. Wisdom is stirring; love is quiet. Wisdom is merry; love grows old."
"Energy is an eternal delight."
"The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society."
"The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight."
"To prefer it is better than to only know it. To delight in it is better than merely to prefer it."
