#delight

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#finding #knowing #out #rather #than

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

— Georges Bataille

#delightful #fruit #got #happiness #into

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

— John Denham

#delight #ends #fours #piety #should

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

— William Blake

#everything #holy #life #lives

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

— William Blake

#never #soul #sweet

Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business. Hence come those frequent absences, so observable in conversation; for whilst the body is confined to present company, the mind is flown to that which it delights in. ↗

— Mary Astell

#body #business #come #company #confined

Look at Christ, my dear friend: His life was divine through and through, full of self-denial, and He did everything for mankind, finding His satisfaction and His delight in the dissolution of His material being. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#christ #dear #dear friend #delight #did

My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

#delighted #far #given #had #her

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

When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away. ↗

— Anna Pavlova

#away #brief #brief moment #butterfly #child