#delights

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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Money is the sovereign queen of all delights - for her, the lawyer pleads, the soldier fights. ↗

— Richard Barnfield

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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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One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going. ↗

— Anthony Burgess

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All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation. ↗

— Francois Fenelon

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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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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

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

— George MacDonald

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