#delight

There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight. ↗

— Gertrude Jekyll

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Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them? ↗

— Rose Kennedy

#after #birds #delight #feel #free

Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

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The delights of self-discovery are always available. ↗

— Gail Sheehy

#available #delights #self-discovery

Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

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Every time I have to look up a word in the dictionary, I'm delighted. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

#dictionary #every #every time #i #look

I feel as though I would be delighted to come back into working in the film world, and working in the theater world again. I'm just gonna see what happens. ↗

— Karen Allen

#back #come #delighted #feel #film

Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#course #delights #hatred #his #kills

Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history. ↗

— Robert Hall

#biography #composed #composition #concentrated #delightful

Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love. ↗

— John Locke

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