#delights

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

— George MacDonald

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

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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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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When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away. ↗

— Anna Pavlova

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

— William Blake

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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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