Delights Quotes
350 quotes by 277 authors
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Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business. Hence come those…
— Mary Astell
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Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
— Johann Sebastian Bach
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Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights of paradise, so also we…
— Saint Basil
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That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?
— Joseph Addison
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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.
— William Blake
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A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.
— Minna Antrim
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If delight may provoke men's labour, what greater delights is there then to behold the earth as apparelled with plants, as with a robe of…
— John Gerard
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The message of a leopard-print jumpsuit is clear: 'I am a huntress who delights in eating the offal of her prey.'
— Simon Doonan
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The delights of self-discovery are always available.
— Gail Sheehy
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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, rather is coming…
— John F Walvoord
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There be delights that will fetch the day about from sun to sun and rock the tedious year as in a delightful dream ... For…
— J. D. Sedding
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What is paradise, but, a garden, an orchard of trees and herbs, full of pleasure and nothing there but delights.
— William Lawson
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Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom.
— Giacomo Casanova
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Prosperity inebriates men, so that they take delights in their own merits.
— John Calvin
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From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
— Lucretius
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Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise. That last infirmity of noble mind. To scorn delights, and live laborious days.
— John Milton
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We don't always know what makes us happy. We know, instead, what we think SHOULD. We are baffled and confused when our attempts at happiness…
— Julia Cameron
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I look upon the pleasure we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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I look upon the pleasure which we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life. . . It gives…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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For hardly any man dances when sober, unless he is insane. Nor does he dance while alone, nor at a respectable and moderate party. Dancing…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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