The English delight in Silence more than any other European Nation, if the Remarks which are made on us by Foreigners are… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise. That last infirmity of noble mind. To scorn delights, and live laborious… — John Milton Copy Share Image
I get frustrated with certain aspects of the game. But there's things that delight me, it's just the uncertainty of it all. — Graeme Souness Copy Share Image
Poor comfort all comfort: once what the mouse had spared Was enough, was delight, there where the heart was at home — Ruth Pitter Copy Share Image
Look thy last on all things lovely, Every hour - let no night Seal thy sense in deathly slumber Till to delight… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
O Beloved of Hearts, I beseech only You. Have pity this day on those who turn to You. My Hope, my Rest,… — Rabia Basri Copy Share Image
Life happened. In all its banality, brutality, cruelty, unfairness. But also in its beauty, pleasures and delights. Life happened. — Thrity Umrigar Copy Share Image
Little mouse," a voice said through the keyhole. "Don't you know the more you wriggle, the greater the cat's delight? — Holly Black Copy Share Image
When I have attempted to join myself to others by services, it proved an intellectual trick,-no more. They eat your service like… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Flidais clapped her hands in delight. "Oh, I bet he nearly shat kine!" That made me laugh - I hadn't heard that… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
“What I'll think is that you are clearly, maddeningly not me. It will remind me, again, that you won't be a clone… — Ted Chiang Copy Share Image
It is central to Christian living that we should celebrate the goodness of creation, ponder its present brokenness, and, insofar as we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Once upon a time fairy tales were told to audiences of young and old alike. It is only in the last century… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
you mustn't rely on your flowers to make your garden attractive. A good bone structure must come first, with an intelligent use… — Margery Fish Copy Share Image
Those... who find delight in freedom from attachment in the renunciation of clinging, free from the inflow of thoughts, they are like… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The child's grief throbs against the round of its little heart as heavily as the man's sorrow, and the one finds as… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
I have been a photographer all my life…and have made photographs of many things and for many reasons. But one thing that… — Ralph Gibson Copy Share Image
Those who work standing ... carpenters, sawyers, carvers, blacksmiths, masons ... are liable to varicose veins ... [because] the strain on the… — Bernardino Ramazzini Copy Share Image
For instance, take this sample: he has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Perhaps I ought to remember that she is very young, a mere girl and make allowances. She is all interest, eagerness, vivacity,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“One interesting thing is the idea that people have of a kind of science of Aesthetics. I would almost like to talk… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Oh!” said she, “I heard you before, but I could not immediately determine what to say in reply. You wanted me, I… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Billy was fascinated by the television. At its most basic level, it occupied his time and shut out the demons of isolation.… — Jim Carroll Copy Share Image
I who once wrote songs with keen delight am now by sorrow driven to take up melancholy measures. Wounded Muses tell me… — Boethius Copy Share Image
HELPED are those who are shown the existence of the Creator's magic in the Universe; they shall experience delight and astonishment without… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
By the law of nature, there is no pleasure in suffering; but divine love, when it reigns in a heart, makes it… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
A child gets moral notions from the fairy-tales he delights in, as do his elders from tale and verse. — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
The subliminal mind receives and remembers all those touches that delight the soul. Our soul takes joy in this right touching by… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
My compositions spring from my sorrows. Those that give the world the greatest delight were born of my deepest griefs. — Franz Schubert Copy Share Image
You are far more likely to do your best work if you are willing to delight a few as opposed to soothe… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
All great natures delight in stability; all great men find eternity affirmed in the very promise of their faculties. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it's my wonder and delight in the earth as it is,… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
I place flowers in the very first rank of simple pleasures; and I have no very good opinion of the hard worldly… — Mary Russell Mitford Copy Share Image
The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nor did demons crucify Him; it is you who have crucified Him and crucify Him still, when you delight in your vices… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I delight not in spreading any thing mysterious, for I consider it all lost time; but the things that all of us… — Elias Hicks Copy Share Image
The more hideous the mental contortions, the greater the delight and bravos of the mass. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Whatever a man depends upon, whatever rules his mind, whatever governs his affections, whatever is the chief object of his delight, is… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
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