Best Delights Proverbs
350 Delights quotes by 269 unique authors
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If the East loves infinity, the West delights in boundaries.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man's appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights…
— Honore de Balzac
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Let now the chimneys blaze And cups o’erflow with wine... The summer hath his joys, And winter his delights; Though love and all his pleasures…
— Thomas Campion
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After his death the gardener does not become a butterfly, intoxicated by the perfumes of the flowers, but a garden worm tasting all the dark,…
— Karel Capek
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Through the practice of meditation and Buddhism, as you experience light, it immediately delights you.
— Frederick Lenz
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Our days and nights have sorrows woven with delights.
— Francois de Malherbe
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... me He now delights to spare.
— Charles Wesley
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Quite often - a lot of the work I had done had been extensively with women. Most especially in the theater, but also quite often…
— John Malkovich
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When we focus on the song of our soul and heart, then others will be touched similarly. Sometimes people wonder or worry whether people will…
— Sark
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Mexican homes as a rule are closed off to the world by high blank walls of yellowish masonry, topped with broken glass to discourage escaladores,…
— Charles Portis
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...May its index point to joy, And moments wing'd with new delights. Sweet may resound each silver bell, And never quick returning chime, Seem in…
— Charlotte Turner Smith
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Satan delights to have us put ourselves down. Self-contempt is of Satan. There is no such thing in heaven.
— Neal A. Maxwell
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From a writer's standpoint, each character and story presents its own unique challenges and delights. I'm deeply curious about all of my characters, and I…
— Tina St. John
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That historian or scholar who delights in pointing out the weaknesses and frailties of present or past leaders destroys faith. A destroyer of faith —…
— Boyd K. Packer
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When a novel has 200,000 words, then it is possible for the reader to experience 200,000 delights, and to turn back to the first page…
— Jane Smiley
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All His glory and beauty come from within, and there He delights to dwell, His visits there are frequent, His conversation sweet, His comforts refreshing;…
— Thomas a Kempis
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Who cares for Algebra?Who delights in solving math?I only want to live my lifeAlong the creative path.
— Jennifer Niven
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Why, all delights are vain, but that most vain Which, with pain purchased, doth inherit pain: As, painfully to pore upon a book, To seek…
— William Shakespeare
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A heightened sense of the observation of nature is one of the chief delights that have come to me through trying to paint.
— Winston Churchill
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Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy.
— William Shakespeare
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Even in heavenly pleasures he finds no satisfaction, the disciple who is fully awakened delights only in the destruction of all desires.
— Max Muller
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I'm like the most expensive, exotic item on a gourmet menu. People can wonder about the sensuous delights of the dish, but they can't afford…
— Anna Kournikova
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When spring is here the sketcher begins to look over his equipment and relishes in anticipation the soothing hours he will spend in the open,…
— Walter J. Phillips
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Even the smallest landscape can offer pride of ownership not only to its inhabitants but to its neighbors. The world delights in a garden.... Creating…
— Julie Moir Messervy
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Some wise being organized my system, and gave me my capacity, put into my heart and brain something that delights, charms, and fills me with…
— Brigham Young
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