#rejoice

Should I be the happy mortal destined to turn the scale of war, will you not rejoice, O my father? ↗

— Zebulon Pike

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To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own. ↗

— Tryon Edwards

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I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns. ↗

— Winston Churchill

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I only know what it is that's wrong with him; not why it is." And what is it?" asked Lucy fearfully, expecting some harrowing tale. The old trouble; things won't fit." What things?" The things of the universe. It's quite true. They don't." Oh Mr. Emerson, whatever do you mean?" In his ordinary voice, so that she scarcely realized he was quoting poetry, he said: "'From far, from eve and morning, And yon twelve-winded sky, The stuff of life to knit me Blew hither: here am I." George and I both know this, but why does it distress him? We know that we come from the winds, and that we shall return to them; that all of life is perhaps a knot, a tangle, a blemish in the eternal smoothness. But why should this make us unhappy? Let us rather love one another, and work and rejoice. I don't believe in this world of sorrow. ↗

— E.M. Forster

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If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if the simplest things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive. ↗

— Eleanora Duse

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How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men? ↗

— Lao Tzu

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I am not officially involved now in the direction of the Teen Challenge ministry, but I rejoice that God permits me to be the father of these ministries. ↗

— David Wilkerson

#challenge #direction #father #god #i

Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice. ↗

— John Calvin

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I do not so much rejoice that God hath made me to be a Queen, as to be a Queen over so thankful a people. ↗

— Elizabeth I

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