"Energy is the only life, and is from the body; and reason is the bound or outward circumference of energy. Energy is eternal delight."
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"How do you know but ev’ry Bird that cuts the airy way, Is an immense world of delight, clos’d by your senses five?"
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"Every change of place becomes a delight."
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"If you have any talent, or any occupation that delights you, do it, and do it to the hilt. Don't ask why, or what difficulties you may get into."
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"Malice delights to blacken the characters of prominent men."
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"When the character's right, looks are a greater delight."
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"If a man does what is good, let him do it again; let him delight in it; happiness is the outcome of good."
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"I look upon the pleasure we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life."
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"What induces a child to learn but his delight in knowing?"
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"Men of great talents, whether poets or historians, seldom escape the attacks of those who, without ever favoring the world with any production of their own, take delight in criticising the works of others."
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"We delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation. It is not out of compliment that lovers keep on telling one another how beautiful they are; the delight is incomplete till it is expressed."
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"Of pleasures, those which occur most rarely give the most delight."
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"Often a retrospect delights the mind."
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"It is a bad temper of mind that takes delight in opposition."
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"The LORD detests lying lips, but he delights in men who are truthful. PROVERBS 12:22"
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"The wicked have told me of things that delight them, but not such things as your law has to tell."
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"Thou movest us to delight in praising Thee; for Thou hast formed us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless till they find rest in Thee."
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"When you delight the weird, the overlooked and the outliers, they are significantly more likely to talk about you and recommend you."
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"The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom."
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"Strength of numbers is the delight of the timid. The Valiant in spirit glory in fighting alone."
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