#delights

What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible. ↗

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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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

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

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Additionally, Adam’s room had an absolutely massive bed with a plump feather tick that she knew they would put to good use. “Shall we christen it now?” Adam whispered in her ear, his arms stealing around her from behind in spite of the footmen who were still busy bringing up their luggage. Skimming his lips over her cheek, he playfully caressed her nape in a way that never failed to drive her wild. “I could shoo them all out and lock the door. We wouldn’t even have to take off our clothes, I could just tumble you down and toss up your skirts. What do you say, wife, shall I tup you now, or would you rather wait until later? ↗

— Tracy Anne Warren

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Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially R. Crumb's stuff. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#delights #especially #everyone #just #me

Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods. ↗

— Georg Brandes

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

— Ovid

#been #delights #give #just #refuse

Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#appreciate #been #delights #home #impossible

I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers. ↗

— Walt Whitman

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And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#bare feet #delights #earth #feel #feet