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title: "Inspiring Delight Qoutes"
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> [Beauty is for the artist something outside all orders of rank, because in beauty opposites are tamed; the highest sign of power,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/beauty-is-for-the-artist-something-outside-all-orders-of-rank-because/)

[Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/)

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> [Why do men delight in work? Fundamentally, I suppose, because there is a sense of relief and pleasure in getting something done…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-mencken/why-do-men-delight-in-work-fundamentally-i-suppose-because-there-is-a/)

[H. L. Mencken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-mencken/)

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> [The Ploughmen is as good a book as I’ve read in years. Kim Zupan’s language is as rich as Cormac McCarthy’s, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rick-demarinis/the-ploughmen-is-as-good-a-book-as-i-ve-read-in-years-kim-zupan-s/)

[Rick DeMarinis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rick-demarinis/)

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> [Satan always hates Christian fellowship; it is his policy to keep Christians apart. Anything which can divide saints from one another he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-spurgeon/satan-always-hates-christian-fellowship-it-is-his-policy-to-keep/)

[Charles Spurgeon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-spurgeon/)

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> [Early in April, as I was vigorously hoeing in a corner, I unearthed a huge toad, to my perfect delight and satisfaction;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/celia-thaxter/early-in-april-as-i-was-vigorously-hoeing-in-a-corner-i-unearthed-a/)

[Celia Thaxter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/celia-thaxter/)

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> [If we obey God it is going to cost other people more than it costs us, and that is where the sting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oswald-chambers/if-we-obey-god-it-is-going-to-cost-other-people-more-than-it-costs-us/)

[Oswald Chambers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oswald-chambers/)

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> [Desire to know why, and how curiosity, which is a lust of the mind, that a perseverance of delight in the continued…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hobbes/desire-to-know-why-and-how-curiosity-which-is-a-lust-of-the-mind-that/)

[Thomas Hobbes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hobbes/)

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> [When a novel has 200,000 words, then it is possible for the reader to experience 200,000 delights, and to turn back to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-smiley/when-a-novel-has-200-000-words-then-it-is-possible-for-the-reader-to/)

[Jane Smiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-smiley/)

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> [I have been here before, But when or how I cannot tell: I know the grass beyond the door, The sweet keen…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dante-gabriel-rossetti/i-have-been-here-before-but-when-or-how-i-cannot-tell-i-know-the/)

[Dante Gabriel Rossetti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dante-gabriel-rossetti/)

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> [There is neither encouragement nor room in Bible religion for feeble desires, listless efforts, lazy attitudes; all must be strenuous, urgent, ardent.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-mckendree-bounds/there-is-neither-encouragement-nor-room-in-bible-religion-for-feeble/)

[Edward McKendree Bounds](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-mckendree-bounds/)

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> [The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-soul-is-the-perceiver-and-revealer-of-truth-we-know-truth-when-we-2/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Sex contains all, Bodies, Souls, meanings, proofs, purities, delicacies, results, promulgations, Songs, commands, health, pride, the maternal mystery, the seminal milk; All…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walt-whitman/sex-contains-all-bodies-souls-meanings-proofs-purities-delicacies/)

[Walt Whitman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walt-whitman/)

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> [I give you my promise to be by your side forevermore. I promise to love, to honor, and to listen as you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kristen-proby/i-give-you-my-promise-to-be-by-your-side-forevermore-i-promise-to/)

[Kristen Proby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kristen-proby/)

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> [Never give all the heart, for love Will hardly seem worth thinking of To passionate women if it seem Certain, and they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/never-give-all-the-heart-for-love-will-hardly-seem-worth-thinking-of/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [Her delight in the smallest things was like that of a child. There were days when she ran in the garden, like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexandre-dumas-fils/her-delight-in-the-smallest-things-was-like-that-of-a-child-there/)

[Alexandre Dumas-fils](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexandre-dumas-fils/)

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> [When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/when-you-are-sorrowful-look-again-in-your-heart-and-you-shall-see-3/)

[Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/)

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> [Prayer is not a means for us to persuade a reluctant God to do something which is against His better judgment. Prayer,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-f-walvoord/prayer-is-not-a-means-for-us-to-persuade-a-reluctant-god-to-do/)

[John F Walvoord](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-f-walvoord/)

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> [Go, mark the matchless working of the power That shuts within the seed the future flower; Bids these in elegance of form…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-cowper/go-mark-the-matchless-working-of-the-power-that-shuts-within-the-seed/)

[William Cowper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-cowper/)

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> [God doesn't want religious duty. He doesn't want a distracted, half-hearted, 'Fine, I'll read a chapter...now are You happy?' attitude. God wants…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-chan/god-doesn-t-want-religious-duty-he-doesn-t-want-a-distracted-half/)

[Francis Chan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francis-chan/)

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> [Men of Science would do well to talk plain English. The most abstruse questions can very well be discussed in our own…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oliver-lodge/men-of-science-would-do-well-to-talk-plain-english-the-most-abstruse/)

[Oliver Lodge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oliver-lodge/)

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> [From the glow of enthusiasm I let the melody escape. I pursue it. Breathless I catch up with it. It flies again,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ludwig-van-beethoven/from-the-glow-of-enthusiasm-i-let-the-melody-escape-i-pursue-it/)

[Ludwig van Beethoven](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ludwig-van-beethoven/)

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> [Kids delight in 'magical thinking', whether in the form of the Tooth Fairy or the saints: whether you see these as comforting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emma-donoghue/kids-delight-in-magical-thinking-whether-in-the-form-of-the-tooth/)

[Emma Donoghue](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emma-donoghue/)

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> [You see how it is godlike to love the being of someone. Your existence is a delight to us. I hope you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marilynne-robinson/you-see-how-it-is-godlike-to-love-the-being-of-someone-your-existence/)

[Marilynne Robinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marilynne-robinson/)

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> [Study me, reader, if you delight in me, because on very few occasions shall I return to the world, and because the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonardo-da-vinci/study-me-reader-if-you-delight-in-me-because-on-very-few-occasions/)

[Leonardo da Vinci](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonardo-da-vinci/)

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> [The greatest stumbling block for children in worship is that their parents do not cherish the hour. Children can feel the difference…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-piper/the-greatest-stumbling-block-for-children-in-worship-is-that-their/)

[John Piper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-piper/)

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> [Look at Christ, my dear friend: His life was divine through and through, full of self-denial, and He did everything for mankind,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mikhail-bakunin/look-at-christ-my-dear-friend-his-life-was-divine-through-and-through/)

[Mikhail Bakunin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mikhail-bakunin/)

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> [Worship is not about my enjoyment. It is about my enjoyment of God. It is not about my pleasure or my delight…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-storms/worship-is-not-about-my-enjoyment-it-is-about-my-enjoyment-of-god-it/)

[Sam Storms](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-storms/)

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> [However, without considering this connection, there is no doubt but that more good than evil, more delight than sorrow, arises from compassion…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-butler/however-without-considering-this-connection-there-is-no-doubt-but/)

[Joseph Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-butler/)

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> [I do not doubt that services like social games and coupons bring delight to peoples lives, and I mean no disrespect to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/justin-rosenstein/i-do-not-doubt-that-services-like-social-games-and-coupons-bring/)

[Justin Rosenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/justin-rosenstein/)

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> [“Now take all the delights of the earth, melt them into one single delight, and cast it entire into a single man…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roland-barthes/now-take-all-the-delights-of-the-earth-melt-them-into-one-single/)

[Roland Barthes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roland-barthes/)

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> [The body's weakness comes from illnesses, while the heart's weakness comes from sins. And just as the body does not taste the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dhul-nun-al-misri/the-body-s-weakness-comes-from-illnesses-while-the-heart-s-weakness/)

Dhul-Nun al-Misri

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> [He loved a book because it was a book; he loved its odor, its form, its title. What he loved in a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gustave-flaubert/he-loved-a-book-because-it-was-a-book-he-loved-its-odor-its-form-its/)

[Gustave Flaubert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gustave-flaubert/)

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> [The human mind delights in finding pattern—so much so that we often mistake coincidence or forced analogy for profound meaning. No other…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-jay-gould/the-human-mind-delights-in-finding-pattern-so-much-so-that-we-often/)

[Stephen Jay Gould](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-jay-gould/)

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> [The longer it possesseth a man the more he will delight in it, and the older he groweth the more he shall…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-raleigh/the-longer-it-possesseth-a-man-the-more-he-will-delight-in-it-and-the/)

[Walter Raleigh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-raleigh/)

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> [Natural objects themselves, even when they make no claim to beauty, excite the feelings, and occupy the imagination. Nature pleases, attracts, delights,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilhelm-von-humboldt/natural-objects-themselves-even-when-they-make-no-claim-to-beauty/)

[Wilhelm von Humboldt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilhelm-von-humboldt/)

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> [The desire for bad art is the desire bred of habit: like the smoker's desire for tobacco, more marked by the extreme…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/the-desire-for-bad-art-is-the-desire-bred-of-habit-like-the-smoker-s/)

[C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/)

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> [The delight we find in art amounts to recognition of a saving grace, to an acknowledgment that the problem of life has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rebecca-west/the-delight-we-find-in-art-amounts-to-recognition-of-a-saving-grace/)

[Rebecca West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rebecca-west/)

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> [The Chinese say that there is no scenery in your home town. They’re right. Being in another place heightens the senses, allows…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-wilson-howarth/the-chinese-say-that-there-is-no-scenery-in-your-home-town-they-re/)

[Jane Wilson-Howarth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-wilson-howarth/)

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> [High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-abbey/high-technology-has-done-us-one-great-service-it-has-retaught-us-the/)

[Edward Abbey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-abbey/)

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> [Mr. Wodehouse's idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/evelyn-waugh/mr-wodehouse-s-idyllic-world-can-never-stale-he-will-continue-to/)

[Evelyn Waugh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/evelyn-waugh/)

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                        "text": "I have been here before, But when or how I cannot tell: I know the grass beyond the door, The sweet keen smell, The sighing sound, the lights around the shore. ... You have been mine before, How long ago I may not know: But just when at that swallow's soar Your neck turned so, Some veil did fall - I knew it all of yore. Has this been thus before? And shall not thus time's eddying flight Still with our lives our love restore In death's despite, And day and night yield one delight once more",
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                        "text": "There is neither encouragement nor room in Bible religion for feeble desires, listless efforts, lazy attitudes; all must be strenuous, urgent, ardent. Flamed desires, impassioned, unwearied insistence delight heaven. God would have His children incorrigibly in earnest and persistently bold in their efforts. Heaven is too busy to listen to half-hearted prayers or to respond to pop-calls. Our whole being must be in our praying.",
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                        "text": "The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose ... We distinguish the announcements of the soul, its manifestations of its own nature, by the term Revelation. These are always attended by the emotion of the sublime. For this communication is an influx of the Divine mind into our mind. It is an ebb of the individual rivulet before the flowing surges of the sea of life. Every distinct apprehension of this central commandment agitates men with awe and delight.",
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                        "text": "Sex contains all, Bodies, Souls, meanings, proofs, purities, delicacies, results, promulgations, Songs, commands, health, pride, the maternal mystery, the seminal milk; All hopes, benefactions, bestowals, All the passions, loves, beauties, delights of the earth, All the governments, judges, gods, follow'd persons of the earth, These are contain'd in sex, as parts of itself, and justifications of itself.",
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                        "text": "I give you my promise to be by your side forevermore. I promise to love, to honor, and to listen as you tell me your thoughts, your hopes, your fears and your dreams. I promise to love you deeply and truly because it is your heart that moves me, your head that challenges me, your humor that delights me and your hands I wish to hold until the end of my days.",
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                        "text": "Never give all the heart, for love Will hardly seem worth thinking of To passionate women if it seem Certain, and they never dream That it fades out from kiss to kiss; For everything that's lovely is But a brief, dreamy, kind delight. O Never give the heart outright, For they, for all smooth lips can say, Have given their hearts up to the play. And who could play it well enough If deaf and dumb and blind with love? He that made this knows all the cost, For he gave all his heart and lost.",
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                        "text": "Her delight in the smallest things was like that of a child. There were days when she ran in the garden, like a child of ten, after a butterfly or a dragon-fly. This courtesan who had cost more money in bouquets than would have kept a whole family in comfort, would sometimes sit on the grass for an hour, examining the simple flower whose name she bore.",
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                        "text": "God doesn't want religious duty. He doesn't want a distracted, half-hearted, 'Fine, I'll read a chapter...now are You happy?' attitude. God wants His word to be a delight to us, so much that we meditate on it day and night.",
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                        "text": "Men of Science would do well to talk plain English. The most abstruse questions can very well be discussed in our own tongue ... I make a particular appeal to the botanists, who appear to delight in troublesome words.",
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                        "text": "From the glow of enthusiasm I let the melody escape. I pursue it. Breathless I catch up with it. It flies again, it disappears, it plunges into a chaos of diverse emotions. I catch it again, I seize it, I embrace it with delight... I multiply it by modulations, and at last I triumph in the first theme. There is the whole symphony.",
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                        "text": "Kids delight in 'magical thinking', whether in the form of the Tooth Fairy or the saints: whether you see these as comforting lies or eternal verities, they are part of how we help kids make sense of the world.",
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                        "text": "You see how it is godlike to love the being of someone. Your existence is a delight to us. I hope you never have to long for a child as I did, but oh, what a splendid thing it has been that you came finally, and what a blessing to enjoy you now for almost seven years.",
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                        "text": "Study me, reader, if you delight in me, because on very few occasions shall I return to the world, and because the patience for this profession is found in very few, and only in those who wish to compose things anew. Come, oh men, to see the miracles that such studies will disclose to nature.",
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                        "text": "The greatest stumbling block for children in worship is that their parents do not cherish the hour. Children can feel the difference between duty and delight. Therefore, the first and most important job of a parent is to fall in love with the worship of God. You can't impart what you don't possess.",
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