A woman well bred and well taught, furnished with the additional accomplishments of knowledge and behaviour, is a creature without comparison. Her… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the… — Sissela Bok Copy Share Image
The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It's the anarchy of poverty delights me, the old yellow wooden house indented among the new brick tenements — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
Yet is there one more cursed than they all, That canker-worm, that monster, jealousie, Which eats the heart and feeds upon the… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
...there is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful ones in meditation. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
If therefore our houses be houses of the Lord, we shall for that reason love home, reckoning our daily devotion the sweetest… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
A woman is sometimes fugitive, irrational, indeterminable, illogical and contradictory. A great deal of forbearance ought to be shown her, and a… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
It's important for a parent to learn to take delight in a child whose behavior might seem mystifying. In the case of… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss.… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
To prefer it is better than to only know it. To delight in it is better than merely to prefer it. — Confucius Copy Share Image
The sorcery and charm of imagination, and the power it gives to the individual to transform his world into a new world… — Frank Barron Copy Share Image
New Year's Day. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
Enjoy thankfully any happy hour heaven may send you, nor think that your delights will keep till another year. — Horace Copy Share Image
A person with friends need never be bored. There is always more to fathom and enjoy in the complexity of others, and… — Stephanie Mills Copy Share Image
It is in recognizing the actual presence of God that we find prayer no longer a chore, but a supreme delight. — James Gordon Lindsay Copy Share Image
And I can't be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change of circumstances and varieties of fortune. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Teach us delight in simple things, and mirth that has no bitter springs. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Noting all these things with the great delight which learning gives, we cannot but be stirred by these discoveries when we reflect… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
It is a fact that God wants to destroy every work of our flesh, but He never desires to destroy our personality.… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature. — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
At first, when an idea, a poem, or the desire to write takes hold of you, work is a pleasure, a delight,… — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
