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A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. — Robert Frost

goal of spirituality is not to extract from you all desire and passion. The call of Jesus is the exact opposite - delight — Erwin Raphael McManus

If God be infinitely holy, just, and good, He must take delight in those creatures that resemble Him most in these perfections. — Francis Atterbury

A cheerful life is what the Muses love, A soaring spirit is their prime delight. — William Wordsworth

Intelligence is nothing without delight. — Paul Claudel

The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight. — Joseph Campbell

Poor, dear God. Playing Idiot's Delight. The game that never means anything, and never ends. — Robert E. Sherwood

Many delight more in giving of presents than in paying their debts. — Philip Sidney

I think Mustique is Duchampian - it will always provide an endless source of delight. — David Bowie

Into blinding darkness enter those who worship ignorance. Into as if still greater darkness enter those who delight in knowledge. — Vernon Katz

There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight. — Gertrude Jekyll

Express your creativity. Delight in the mystery of your inner muse. — Cheryl Richardson

I know the dark delight of being strange, The penalty of difference in the crowd, The loneliness of wisdom among fools ... — Claude McKay

I feel a cold northern breeze play upon my cheeks, which braces my nerves and fills me with delight. — Mary Shelley

Man is a poetical animal, and delights in fiction. — William Hazlitt

Life must be so boring without the delight that comes from fictional stories. — Blaire Hammond

It is the difference between men and women, not the sameness, that creates the tension and the delight. — Edward Abbey

There is no delight the equal of dread — Clive Barker

A man is a hypocrite only when he affects to take a delight in what he does not feel, not because he takes a perverse delight in opposite things. — William Hazlitt

You are far more likely to do your best work if you are willing to delight a few as opposed to soothe the masses. — Seth Godin

The warm sun kissed the earthTo consecrate thy birth,And from his close embraceThy radiant faceSprang into sight,A blossoming delight. — Sarah Orne Jewett

To be looked upon as a fool by an idiot is a true connoisseur's delight. — Georges Courteline

Is there any delight as great as the child's discovering ability? — Doris Lessing

Hoeing in the garden on a bright, soft May day, when you are not obligated to, is nearly equal to the delight of going trouting. — Charles Dudley Warner

Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that delight you. — John Darnielle

Say, what abridgement have you for this evening?
What masque, what music? How shall we beguile
The lazy time if not with some delight? — William Shakespeare

There is no man so blessed that some who stand by his deathbed won't hail the occasion with delight. — Marcus Aurelius

20Those of crooked heart are an abomination to the LORD, but those of blameless ways are his delight. — Anonymous

Love overcomes, love delights, those who love the Sacred Heart rejoice. — Bernadette Soubirous

What matters is not your outward appearance ... but your inner disposition. Cultivate inner beauty, the gentle gracious kind that God delights in. — Saint Peter

It's a reminder that it's not my offerings that delight God, but my joyful acceptance of His love that brings Him pleasure (see Hos. 6:6). — Suzanne Eller

The exceeding delight we take in talking about ourselves should give us cause to fear that we are giving but very little pleasureto our listeners. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Delight comes only when our soul dances and plays with another. — Deepak Chopra

We should live deeply and with delight for those who were cheated of life's gift. — Bryant McGill

To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight. — William Shakespeare

To wait on God is to live a life of desire towards him, delight in him, dependence on him, and devotedness to him. — Matthew Henry

No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted. — Michel De Montaigne

I cried for a little while, taking a kind of melancholy delight in my own tears, and then I fell asleep. — Barbara Cohen

Little mouse," a voice said through the keyhole. "Don't you know the more you wriggle, the greater the cat's delight? — Holly Black

Only cast your pure eyes into the well of my delight, friends! You will not dim its sparkle! It shall laugh back at you with its purity. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Nature was indeed at her artistic best when she created the nutmeg, a delight to the eye in all its avatars, from the completely garbed to nudity. — Waverley Root

Poor comfort all comfort: once what the mouse had spared
Was enough, was delight, there where the heart was at home — Ruth Pitter

Imagined happiness is still happiness. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Delight in your body, in your sensuality. Don't be ashamed of it. — Marty Rubin

It is not easy always to be joyful, to keep in mind the duty of delight. — Dorothy Day

Learning is my sole delight. — Francesco Petrarca

And what can still delight an inert stone except to become, once more, the bed of a raging torrent? — Julien Gracq

was the sound of the most beautiful girl in the whole of the British Isles laughing with delight and amusement. — Neil Gaiman

The very first discovery of beauty strikes the mind with an inward joy, and spreads a cheerfulness and delight through all its faculties. — Joseph Addison

It really doesn't pay to go back and look again at the things that once delighted you, because it's unlikely they will delight you now. I — Bill Bryson

Disney is a delight, someone who ... sweeps those around him along on his dream. — Cory Doctorow

The labour we delight in physics pain — William Shakespeare

It is a bad temper of mind that takes delight in opposition. — Benjamin Franklin

Delight yourself in the Lord." Psalm 37:4 — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Contentment, as it is a short road and pleasant, has great delight and little trouble. — Epictetus

A cunning mind emphatically delights in its own cunning, and is the ready prey of cunning. — Anna Brownell Jameson

Death is not a Hunter's delight. Too final. — Karen Marie Moning

No emotion was supposed to cross the great divide of class. Affection could erase all hierarchy; in this was the danger, and the delight. — Damon Galgut

Never find your delight in another's misfortune. — Publilius Syrus

Laughter means: taking a mischievous delight in someone else's uneasiness, but with a good conscience. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Unexpected money is a delight. The same sum is a bitterness when you expected more. — Mark Twain

Indeed, we may go further and assert that anyone who does not delight in fine actions is not even a good man. — Aristotle.

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

What induces a child to learn but his delight in knowing? — Helen Keller

The applause is a celebration not only of the actors but also of the audience. It constitutes a shared moment of delight. — John Charles Polanyi

Shakespeare ... If he does not give you delight, you had better ignore him [if you can]. — Bertrand Russell

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

When love burns toward the Savior a sincere passion to render obedience to all of His precepts is our desire, our delight and our holy obsession. — Albert Martin

So do we discover, in the world, that our worst fears are
unfulfilled; yet we must fear, in order that we may feel delight. — Peter Ackroyd

I know writers for whom the act of writing is a necessary chore. They suffer to write great work. I am very lucky that for me writing is a delight. — Denise Duhamel

The poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should delight him. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I look upon the pleasure we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

The present moment is the only one that matters, and what you are doing right now is as delightful as anything else. — Victor Shamas

Strength of numbers is the delight of the timid. The Valiant in spirit glory in fighting alone. — Mahatma Gandhi

Exercise till the mind feels delight in reposing from the fatigue. — Socrates

Don't lose sight of user delight. — Mark Pincus

All great art is the expression of man's delight in God's work, not his own. — John Ruskin

Be passionate. Generate the magnetic power of eros through sensual, mental, and spiritual delight. — John Friend

I suspect that the god many people worship is psycho. Because their god takes delight in the fact that his kids suffer. — Bo Sanchez

Satan delights to have us put ourselves down. Self-contempt is of Satan. There is no such thing in heaven. — Neal A. Maxwell

In literature mere egotism is delightful. — Oscar Wilde

In joy or sorrow, feebleness or might,
Peace or commotion, be thou, Father, my delight. — George MacDonald

Of this he was certain: to be in her presence was to know delight in a more vivid sense than ever he had before. — Pamela Aidan

End of the world delight — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

The sweetest souls, like the sweetest flowers, soon canker in cities, and no purity is rarer there than the purity of delight. — Walter Savage Landor

Join the community of saints and know the delight of your own Soul. Enter the ruins of your Heart and Learn the Meaning of Humility. — Rumi

Making disciples of Jesus is the overflow of the delight in being disciples of Jesus. — David Platt

By the law of nature, there is no pleasure in suffering; but divine love, when it reigns in a heart, makes it take delight in its sufferings. — Alphonsus Liguori

Meditate with delight and run with joy. — Sakyong Mipham

Poetry, a speaking picture ... to teach and delight — Philip Sidney

People think that fun in Christ is non-existent, but there is fun wherever your heart lives. — Criss Jami

In the garden of tabloid delight, there is always a clean towel and another song. — Lewis H. Lapham

Fear, delight, and being twenty were made for each other: — Mark Helprin

The person who calls himself a Christian, who says he loves God, yet does not seek his company and delight in it, can't be a true lover of God. — Kris Lundgaard

It is no longer enough to satisfy your customers. You must delight them. — Philip Kotler

The delight of populists and the horror of the European Union, Switzerland voted in favour of quotas for EU migrants. — Anonymous

Friendship, a dear balm...
A smile among dark frowns: a beloved light: A solitude, a refuge, a delight. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Every change of place becomes a delight. — Seneca The Younger

They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who delight in it. — Confucius

We don't honor just to get a reward; we honor because it is the heart of God, and it is our delight. — John Bevere