#delights

All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age. ↗

— Lactantius

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Our days and nights have sorrows woven with delights. ↗

— Francois de Malherbe

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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

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

— Ovid

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Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly. ↗

— George MacDonald

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Quite often - a lot of the work I had done had been extensively with women. Most especially in the theater, but also quite often in the movies. That has its own delights, and maybe pitfalls too. ↗

— John Malkovich

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He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life. ↗

— George Sand

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Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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