Delighting Quotes

37 quotes by 33 authors

One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader. — Horace
As the strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in such exercises as call his muscles into action, so glories the analyst in that… — Edgar Allan Poe
All hatred driven hence, The soul recovers radical innocence And learns at last that it is self-delighting, Self-appeasing, self-affrighting, And that its own sweet will… — William Butler Yeats
When the reward is the activity itself--deepening learning, delighting customers, doing one's best--there are no shortcuts. — Daniel H. Pink
Nothing bothers the devil more than a Christian delighting in Godâ€™s presence. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
So, then, the best of the historian is subject to the poet; for whatsoever action or faction, whatsoever counsel, policy, or war-stratagem the historian is… — Philip Sidney
Things are evermore sincere; / Candor here, and lustre there / Delighting. — Robert Herrick
Be quick to do good. If you are slow, The mind, delighting in mischief, Will catch you. Turn away from mischief. Again and again, turn… — Gautama Buddha
The friendship which is to be practised or expected by common mortals, must take its rise from mutual pleasure, and must end when the power… — Samuel Johnson
The main point here is that we are to desire something before faith can come into play. Our desires are of value to God. Itâ€™s… — Phil Pringle
So is the savage buffalo, especially delighting in dark places, where he can wallow in the mud and slake his thirst without much trouble; and… — John Hanning Speke
Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice. — John Henry Newman
Poetry cannot afford to lose its fundamentally self-delighting inventiveness, its joy in being a process of language as well as a representation of things in… — Seamus Heaney
Be quick to do good. If you are slow, the mind, delighting in mischief, will catch you. — Gautama Buddha
Yellow can express happiness, and then again, pain. There is flame red, blood red, and rose red; there is silver blue, sky blue, and thunder… — Emil Nolde
Delighting in God's Word leads us to delight in God, and delight in God drives away fear. — David Jeremiah
Ironically, often the thing that keeps me from experiencing joy is my preoccupation with self. The very selfishness that keeps me from pouring myself out… — John Ortberg
There's no abhorrence about wearing M&S. We just haven't been delighting the girls. — Stuart Rose
Yesterday, I was sad, tomorrow i may be sad again, but today i know that i am happy. I want to live on and on,… — Ruskin Bond
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies… — Homer

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