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"The first characteristic of Rossini's music is speed - a speed which removes from the soul all the sombre emotions that are so powerfully evoked within us by the slow strains in Mozart. I find also in Rossini a cool freshness, which, measure by measure, makes us smile with delight."
"Feel the delight of walking in the noisy street and being the noise."
"My heart rushes into the garden, joyfully tasting all the delights. But reason frowns, disapproving of the heart's bad manners."
"Constant labor of one uniform kind destroys the intensity and flow of a man's animal spirits, which find recreation and delight in mere change of activity."
"Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability."
"There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change of circumstances and varieties of fortune."
"I often think of the image only I can see now, and of which I’ve never spoken. It’s always there, in the same silence, amazing. It’s the only image of myself I like, the only one in which I recognize myself, in which I delight"
"Let him cry whoever feels like crying, for we were animals before we became reasoning beings, and the shedding of a tear, whether of forgiveness or of pity or of sheer delight at beauty, will do him a lot of good."
"Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love."
"The fact of our deriving constant pleasure from whatever is a type or semblance of divine attributes, and from nothing but that which is so, is the most glorious of all that can be demonstrated of human nature; it not only sets a great gulf of specific separation between us and the lower animals, but it seems a promise of a communion ultimately deep, close, and conscious, with the Being whose darkened manifestations we here feebly and unthinkingly delight in."
"Of what delights are we deprived by our excesses!"
"The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight."
"You can rake the muck this way, rake the muck that way-- it will always be muck. Have I sinned or have I not sinned? In the time I am brooding over it, I could be stringing pearls for the delight of Heaven"
"In every sorrowing soul I pour'd delight, And poverty stood smiling in my sight."
"God made the world for the delight of human beings."
"And there my little doves did sit With feathers softly brown And glittering eyes that showed their right To general Nature's deep delight."
"When you delight yourself in the Lord, His Word and His ways become the focus and foundation of your life."
"Love with delight discourses in my mindUpon my lady's admirable gifts...Beyond the range of human intellect."
"No generous mind delights to oppress the weak, but rather to cherish and protect."
"What a delight it is to respect people!"
