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The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction: not indeed For that which is most worthy to be blest— Delight and liberty, the simple creed Of Childhood, whether busy or at rest, With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast.


William Wordsworth


#hope #poem #poetry #recollection #business

The Professor never really seemed to care whether we figured out the right answer to a problem. He preferred our wild, desperate guesses to silence, and he was even more delighted when those guesses led to new problems that took us beyond the original one. He had a special feeling for what he called the "correct miscalculation," for he believed that mistakes were often as revealing as the right answers.


Yoko Ogawa


#delight #guesses #math #struggle #math

Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.


Ovid


#been #delights #give #just #refuse

Donald had reached its further edge, and could hear the rush of the stream from the deep obscurity of the abyss below, when there rose from the opposite side a strain of the most delightful music he had ever heard.


Hugh Miller


#below #could #deep #delightful #donald

The members of the court were just delighted to have a ninth member - male or female. They were all kind and welcoming.


Sandra Day O'Connor


#delighted #female #just #kind #male

I am delighted to have had students, friends and colleagues in so many nations and to have learned so much of what I know from them. This Nobel Award honours them all.


John Pople


#award #colleagues #delighted #friends #had

True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.


Philip Pullman


#education #falls #flowers #love #point

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


#been #books #children #delight #enjoying

The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?


Marquis de Sade


#delights #depends #everything #imagination #joy

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.


Carl Sagan


#after #chance #continue #death #delighted






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