"With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy. Round it all the muses sing."
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"Our soul can find in the Blessed Sacrament all the joys and consolations it desires."
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"I really want my acting to be definitive a lot of times, but I must feel like in any given moment there is a lot of things going on with Rose. I kept telling Denzel [Washington] throughout filming [Fences] that the house is her joy and her tomb."
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"Those who know the joys and miseries of celebrities when they have passed the age of forty know how to defend themselves."
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"Although not a very old man, I have yet lived a great deal in my life, and I have known sorrow too bitter and joy too keen to allow me to become either cast down or elated for more than a very brief period over any success or defeat."
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"It is a joy to be choked with thought."
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"The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience."
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"Two things that I think matter are gratitude and joy."
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"Your own tactic is to train yourself in the art of becoming enigmatic to everybody. My young friend, suppose there was no one who troubld himself to guess your riddle--what joy, then, would you have in it?"
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"If you want to simplify your life, meditation is the answer. If you want to fulfil your life, meditation is the answer. If you want to have joy and offer joy to the world at large, then meditation is the only answer."
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"Pity the planet, all joy gone from this sweet volcanic cone"
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"What a Joy, to travel the way of the heart"
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"Let us put away our blinders and answer the call to Joy."
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"That hurt we embrace becomes joy. Call it to your arms where it can change."
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"The drum of the realization of the promise is beating, we are sweeping the road to the sky. Your joy is here today, what remains for tomorrow?"
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"All present life is but an interjection, An'Oh!'or 'Ah!'of joy or misery, Or a 'Ha! ha!'or 'Bah!'a yawn or 'Pooh!' Of which perhaps the latter is most true."
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"Ah" said Dumbledore gently, "Yes I thought we might hit that little snag!" "Snag?" said Fudge, his voice still vibrating with joy. "I see no snag, Dumbledore!" "Well," said Dumbledore apologetically, "I'm afraid I do." "Oh, really?" "Well it's just that you seem to be labouring under the delusion that I am going to -- come quietly. I am afraid I am not going to come quietly at all, Cornelius. I have absolutely no intention of being sent to Azkaban. I could break out, of course -- but what a waste of time, and frankly, I can think of a whole host of things I would rather be doing."
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"To joy in conquest is to joy in the loss of human life."
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"And then all the host of Rohan burst into song, and they sang as they slew, for the joy of battle was on them, and the sound of their singing that was fair and terrible came even to the City."
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"To have attained to the human form is a source of joy... What an incomparable bliss it is to undergo these countless transitions."
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