Quotes: Delight

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As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that thank Heaven nobody is reporting in this fashion on us.

Joseph Priestley

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Lyrics are very different. There is a clear line between that and a poem. Something that has been a source of great excitement and delight for me is this idea that I get to rhyme.

Joanna Newsom

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Intelligence is nothing without delight.

Paul Claudel

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Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature’s delight.

Marcus Aurelius

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Work is the order of the day, just as it was at one time, with our first starts and our best efforts. Do you remember? Therein lies its delight. It brings back the forgotten; one’s stores of energy, seemingly exhausted, come back to life.

Boris Pasternak

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Nature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of delight.

Daniel Boone

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I have devoted my energies to the study of the scriptures, observing monastic discipline, and singing the daily services in church; study, teaching, and writing have always been my delight.

Venerable Bede

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Children will not pretend to be enjoying books, and they will not read books because they have been told that these books are good. They are looking for delight.

Helen Dunmore

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Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.

George Henry Lewes

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Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own.

Emanuel Swedenborg

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