Best Delights Quotations
350 Delights quotes by 269 unique authors
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The body's weakness comes from illnesses, while the heart's weakness comes from sins. And just as the body does not taste the delights of food…
— Dhul-Nun al-Misri
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I think most of us look at personal delights as somewhere between minimally important and borderline immoral. We like them, but we're not sure we…
— Victoria Moran
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But the delights of solitude don't only consist of dreaming. Next in enjoyment, I think, comes planning.
— Anna Neagle
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Money is the sovereign queen of all delights - for her, the lawyer pleads, the soldier fights.
— Richard Barnfield
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God's love, and hence the love with which we come to love God, is eros and agape at once: a desire for the other that…
— David Bentley Hart
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The delights of reading impart the vivacity of youth even to old age.
— Isaac D'Israeli
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Whether they yield or refuse, it delights women to have been asked.
— Ovid
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(That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to…
— John Milton
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He whose wealth or children distract him from remembering God is lost; but the one who remembers God experiences delights sweeter than the pleasure of…
— Ibn Ata Allah
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Home is a refuge not only from the world, but a refuge from my worries, my troubles, my concerns. I like beautiful things around me.…
— Maya Angelou
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It is a fact that God wants to destroy every work of our flesh, but He never desires to destroy our personality. He takes no…
— Watchman Nee
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Know your lover and what delights him or her, but also what he/she considers inappropriate. After all, you want to whet their appetite and create…
— Laura Ramirez
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Herein lies the real value of education. Advanced education may or may not make men and women more efficient; but it enriches personality, increases the…
— William Lyon Phelps
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Every natural power exhilarates; a true talent delights the possessor first.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods.
— Georg Brandes
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From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations
— Hippocrates
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There is nothing beginning nor end to the imagination but it delights in its own seasons reversing the usual order at will.
— William Carlos Williams
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To have faith in Christ means more than simply despising the delights of this life. It means we should bear all our daily trials that…
— Symeon the New Theologian
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Do not despair, dear heart, but come to the Lord with all your jagged wounds, black bruises, and running sores. He alone can heal, and…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Reading that pleases and profits, that together delights and instructs, has all that one should desire.
— Unknown Author
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Let no man pretend to fear sin that does not fear temptation also! These two are too closely united to be separated. He does not…
— John Owen
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Beauty is found in anything that delights the senses, nourishes the soul, fires the imagination.
— Thomas Kinkade
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He who delights in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Jacques Tati is the great philosophical tinkerer of comedy, taking meticulous care to arrange his films so that they unfold in a series of revelations…
— Roger Ebert
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The Lord Jesus is a deep sea of joy; my soul shall dive therein, shall be swallowed up in the delights of his society.
— Charles Spurgeon
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