"He [Columbus] enjoyed long stretches of pure delight such as only a seaman may know, and moments of high, proud exultation that only a discoverer can experience."
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"He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life."
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"The true spirit of delight...is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry."
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"Life delights in life."
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"You change people by delight, by pleasure."
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"...there is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful ones in meditation."
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"Sweets grown common lose their dear delight."
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"I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful."
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"The soul has this proof of divinity: that divine things delight it."
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"I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world."
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"Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair."
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"The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings."
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"Authority exercised with humility, and obedience accepted with delight are the very lines along which our spirits live."
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"As high as we have mounted in delight, In our dejection do we sink as low."
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"Teach correctly... Find delight in contemplation."
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"Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God."
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"Listen, open a window to God and begin to delight yourself by gazing upon Him through the opening."
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"I suddenly discovered the delight of rebellion."
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"The virtuous man delights in this world and he delights in the next"
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"To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and not only among the plants, but among the boughs, the leaves and the fruits, you will not find one which is exactly similar to another."
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