"For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in……" — Margaret Cavendish

"For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance."

— Margaret Cavendish

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23 Quotes by Margaret Cavendish

Margaret Cavendish has 23 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast:…
In such misfortunes my Mother was of an heroic spirit, in suffering patiently when there was no remedy, and being…
My other brother, the Lord Lucas, who was heir to my father's estate, and as it were the father to…
I would rather die in the adventure of noble achievements than live in obscure and sluggish security.
And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor…
Indeed, I was so afraid to dishonour my friends and family by my indiscreet actions, that I rather chose to…
For disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses.
But if our sex would but well consider and rationally ponder, they will perceive and find that it is neither…
As for our garments, my Mother did not only delight to see us neat and cleanly, fine and gay, but…
For I, hearing my Lord's estate amongst many more estates was to be sold, and that the wives of the…
And though I might have learnt more wit and advanced my understanding by living in a Court, yet being dull,…
As for plenty, we had not only for necessity, conveniency and decency, but for delight and pleasure to superfluity.

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More Delight Quotes

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Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be… — Hannah Arendt
The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing. — Isaac Asimov
Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds… — Mary Astell
Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight. — Marcus Aurelius
To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the… — Jane Austen
Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to… — Teresa of Avila
Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul. — Johann Sebastian Bach
Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability. — Francis Bacon
Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights… — Saint Basil
The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from… — Charles Baudelaire
That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a… — Joseph Addison
And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words… — Venerable Bede

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