#delight

What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty? ↗

— Edmund Spenser

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To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

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To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman. ↗

— George Santayana

#crime #dangerous #delight #merit #positive

No jealousy their dawn of love overcast, nor blasted were their wedded days with strife; each season looked delightful as it past, to the fond husband and the faithful wife. ↗

— James Beattie

#blasted #dawn #days #delightful #each

I am delighted, excited, and deeply honored. ↗

— Saul Perlmutter

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What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible. ↗

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

#delights #invisible #us #visible

While F.D.R. once told Americans that we have nothing to fear but fear itself, Mr. Ashcroft is delighted to play the part of Fear Itself, an assignment in which he lets his imagination run riot. ↗

— Frank Rich

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Think it not hard if you get not your will, nor your delights in this life; God will have you to rejoice in nothing but himself. ↗

— Samuel Rutherford

#get #god #hard #himself #life

There is much boasting among the young men about their teams as their horse and carts in Cleveland. Most of the Yorkshire men take as much delight in their ox draught as they used to do in their Horse Draught. ↗

— Nathaniel Smith

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Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind. ↗

— Socrates

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