#delight

Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use. ↗

— John Denham

#delight #ends #fours #piety #should

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#becomes #companion #delightful #doubtful #flatterer

For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life. ↗

— William Blake

#everything #holy #life #lives

Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence. ↗

— William Blake

#breeds #delight #desires #energy #eternal

The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled. ↗

— William Blake

#never #soul #sweet

I am, of course, delighted but there was never any doubt about Sol staying. ↗

— Arsene Wenger

#am #any #course #delighted #doubt

The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight. ↗

— Joseph Joubert

#conceives #delight #forth #mind #pain

Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#mature #more #painful #solitude #young

We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the power it confers and the burden it imposes. We learn how it can delight, give breathing space and protect. ↗

— Sissela Bok

#both #breathing #burden #childhood #confers

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#experience #had #those #war #who