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Delight Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Piety practiced in solitude, like the flower that blooms in the desert, may give its fragrance to the winds of heaven, and delight those unbodied…
- Friendship, peculiar boon of Heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied.
- You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
- The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights.
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