Money is the sovereign queen of all delights - for her, the lawyer pleads, the soldier fights. — Richard Barnfield Copy Share Image
The wicked have told me of things that delight them, but not such things as your law has to tell. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Work is my recreation, The play of faculty; a delight like that Which a bird feels in flying, or a fish In… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
That which we are not permitted to have we delight in; that which we can have is disregarded. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
God does not delight in our sufferings. He brings only that which is necessary, but He does not shrink from that which… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to me, and eat… — Isaiah Copy Share Image
Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions because it loves moderation, delights in compromise an is most careful to avoid… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Unless men see a beauty and delight in the worship of God, they will not do it willingly. — John Owen Copy Share Image
Books are the food of youth, the delight of old age; the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity; a… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Happiness is not the reward of virtue, but is virtue itself; nor do we delight in happiness because we restrain from our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For the joy of ear and eye, for the heart and mind's delight, for the mystic harmony, linking sense to sound and… — Folliott Sandford Pierpoint Copy Share Image
For the wise man delights in establishing his merit, the brave man likes to show his courage in action, the covetous man… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
In the time of your life, live—so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
I believe myself that romantic love is the source of the most intense delights that life has to offer. In the relation… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
You can rake the muck this way, rake the muck that way-- it will always be muck. Have I sinned or have… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
Know your lover and what delights him or her, but also what he/she considers inappropriate. After all, you want to whet their… — Laura Ramirez Copy Share Image
Happy is it, indeed, for me that my heart is capable of feeling the same simple and innocent pleasure as the peasant… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Reading was only part of the thrill that a book represented. I got a dizzy pleasure from the weight and feel of… — Debra Ginsberg Copy Share Image
We must look upon the world, with all its delights and all its attractions, with suspicion and reserve. We who love our… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
“To delight a child, to add a new joy to the crowded miracles of childhood, is no less worth doing than to… — Gleeson White Copy Share Image
We may as well face it: the whole level of spirituality among us is low. We have measured ourselves by ourselves until… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
She touched the edge of its voluptuous field, knowing it would be lovely beyond dreams simply to submit to it; that not… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
I would say that among my many huge emotional miscalculations was my taking a film career for granted. It is the most… — Robert Downey, Jr Copy Share Image
Each truth that a writer acquires is a lantern, which he turns full on what facts and thoughts lay already in his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite. — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
When once the mind has raised itself to grasp and to delight in excellence, those who love most will be found to… — Francis Turner Palgrave Copy Share Image
“Who said, 'All Time's delight Hath she for narrow bed; Life's troubled bubble broken'? --- That's what I said.” — Walter de la Mare Copy Share Image
“I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Gail Sheehy tells us that "the delights of self-discovery are always available." All Fools' Day is the perfect day to engrave this… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness. — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
We imagine that whatever is unpleasant is our duty! Is that anything like the spirit of our Lord, "I *delight* to do… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“When we're not looking seems to be the time when God finds the most delight in surprising us” — Mona Hodgson Copy Share Image
Philosophy ... bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom. — Novalis Copy Share Image
A sign of a lover of wisdom is his delight in not running his mouth about things he doesn't know. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
He [Columbus] enjoyed long stretches of pure delight such as only a seaman may know, and moments of high, proud exultation that… — Samuel Eliot Morison Copy Share Image
First of all move me, surprise me, rend my heart; make me tremble, weep, shudder; outrage me; delight my eyes afterwards if… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
The Goddess of Old Europe and Ancient Crete represented the unity of life in nature, delight in the diversity of form, the… — Carol P. Christ Copy Share Image
Indeed, we may go further and assert that anyone who does not delight in fine actions is not even a good man. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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