"He who speaks a bit of a foreign language has more delight in it than he who speaks it well; pleasure goes along with superficial knowledge."
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"Laughter means: taking a mischievous delight in someone else's uneasiness, but with a good conscience."
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"I am a beautiful flower that is blossoming more and more each day. I delight in my world, and my world delights in me."
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"Let dogs delight to bark and bite, for God hath made them so."
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"How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?"
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"All sense of hearing and of sight enfold in the serene delight and quietude of sleep."
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"When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves."
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"They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who delight in it."
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"Our only business is to love and delight ourselves in God."
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"There should be hours for necessities, not for delights; times to repair our nature with comforting repose, and not for us to waste these times."
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"Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight."
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"The more we enjoy of God, the more we are ravished with delight."
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"Your drudgery is another person's delight. It's only a job if you treat it that way. The privilege to do our work, to be in control of the promises we make and the things we build, is something worth cherishing."
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"When the thing taken into union is perfectly adapted to that which receives it, the result is delight and pleasure and satisfaction."
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"Willing emancipateth: that is the true doctrine of will and emancipation - so teacheth you Zarathustra. No longer willing, and no longer valuing, and no longer creating! Ah, that that great debility may ever be far from me! And also in discerning do I feel only my will's procreating and evolving delight."
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"Prosperity inebriates men, so that they take delights in their own merits."
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"Many of the things that bring delight should not be owned. They are more enjoyed if another's, than if yours; the first day they give pleasure to the owner, but in all the rest to the others: what belongs to another rejoices doubly, because it is without the risk of going stale and with the satisfaction of freshness. . . the possession of things not only diminishes their enjoyment, but augments their annoyance, whether shared or not shared."
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"Dust off that Bible. It has the answers you are looking for, and its delights await you."
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"My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary."
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"Let us remember that the times which future generations delight to recall are not those of ease and prosperity, but those of adversity bravely borne."
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