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Delight Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.
- By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is…
- All great natures delight in stability; all great men find eternity affirmed in the very promise of their faculties.
- The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose ...…
- The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.
- In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight.
- When I have attempted to join myself to others by services, it proved an intellectual trick,-no more. They eat your service like apples, and leave…
- Every natural power exhilarates; a true talent delights the possessor first.
- The interminable forests should become graceful parks, for use and delight.
- All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others…
- By virtue of this science the poet is the Namer, or Language-maker, naming things sometimes after their appearance, sometimes after their essence, and giving to…
- I give you joy of your free and brave thought. I have great joy in it. I find incomparable things said incomparably well, as they…
- All minds quote. Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these…
- If the East loves infinity, the West delights in boundaries.
- We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
- In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.
- The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy…
- By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.
- The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and…
- Not the sun or summer alone, but every hour and season yields its tribute of delight.
- The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who…
- The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and…
More Delight Quotes
- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing. — Isaac Asimov
- Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business.… — Mary Astell
- Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight. — Marcus Aurelius
- To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen… — Jane Austen
- Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone… — Teresa of Avila
- Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul. — Johann Sebastian Bach
- Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability. — Francis Bacon
- Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights of paradise,… — Saint Basil
- The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that… — Charles Baudelaire
- That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel? — Joseph Addison
- And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy… — Venerable Bede