#delight

Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul. ↗

— Johann Sebastian Bach

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Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison. ↗

— Georges Bataille

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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

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

— William Blake

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

— William Blake

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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

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

— Desiderius Erasmus

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To my mind ClickThings, and John Underwood are world champion caliber, and I am delighted to have the opportunity to partner with them. ↗

— Boomer Esiason

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One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going. ↗

— Anthony Burgess

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I think in my own country, at the way we've seen through the ordination of women to the priesthood, which I'm delighted about, and that will move on to another level before very long. ↗

— George Carey

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