#delights

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel? ↗

— Joseph Addison

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A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul. ↗

— Minna Antrim

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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

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Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul. ↗

— Johann Sebastian Bach

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

— William Blake

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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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Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

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

— Ovid

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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

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