"To know it is not as good as to love it, and to love it is not as good as to take delight in it."
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"HELPED are those who are shown the existence of the Creator's magic in the Universe; they shall experience delight and astonishment without ceasing."
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"Ah! the terror and the delight of that moment when first we fear ourselves! Until then we have not lived."
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"To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight."
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"A cheerful life is what the Muses love. A soaring spirit is their prime delight."
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"All great natures delight in stability; all great men find eternity affirmed in the very promise of their faculties."
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"The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights."
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"There's no delight in owning anything unshared."
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"If thou continuous to take delight in idle argumentation thou mayest be qualified to combat with the sophists, but will never know how to live with men."
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"It is the Revolution, the magical word, the word that is going to change everything, that is going to bring us immense delight and a quick death."
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"Satan delights equally in statistics and in quoting scripture."
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"Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking."
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"Living in the present is the instant perception of beauty and the great delight in it without seeking pleasure from it."
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"From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born."
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"That prose is a verse, and verse is a prose; convincing all, by demonstrating plain – poetic souls delight in prose insane"
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"Equals, the proverb goes, delight in equals."
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"Hitherto your eyes have been darkened and you have looked too much, yes, far too much, upon the things of earth. If these so much delight you what shall be your rapture when you lift your gaze to things eternal!"
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"I delight not in spreading any thing mysterious, for I consider it all lost time; but the things that all of us can see and know if we will."
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"I guess what I want to learn is how to live in this world and enjoy its delights but also devote myself to God."
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"Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight?"
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