#delights

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

— Minna Antrim

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

— William Blake

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

— Georg Brandes

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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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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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