Delighting Quotes
37 quotes by 33 authors
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One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.
— Horace
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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
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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
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When the reward is the activity itself--deepening learning, delighting customers, doing one's best--there are no shortcuts.
— Daniel H. Pink
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Nothing bothers the devil more than a Christian delighting in God’s presence.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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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
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Things are evermore sincere; / Candor here, and lustre there / Delighting.
— Robert Herrick
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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
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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
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The main point here is that we are to desire something before faith can come into play. Our desires are of value to God. It’s…
— Phil Pringle
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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
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Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
— John Henry Newman
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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
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Be quick to do good. If you are slow, the mind, delighting in mischief, will catch you.
— Gautama Buddha
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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
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Delighting in God's Word leads us to delight in God, and delight in God drives away fear.
— David Jeremiah
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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
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There's no abhorrence about wearing M&S. We just haven't been delighting the girls.
— Stuart Rose
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Delighting Quotes
33 authors contributed a total of 37 Delighting Quotes, led by these top contributors: