#delights

Since His delights are to be with you, let yours be found in Him. ↗

— Alphonsus Liguori

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The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful. ↗

— Henri Poincare

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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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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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What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible. ↗

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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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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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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It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison. ↗

— Ashley Montagu

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