To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch the renewal of life - this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do
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Woman's dearest delight is to wound Man's self-conceit, though Man's dearest delight is to gratify hers
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I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pain of others
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To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.
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An honorable Peace is and always was my first wish! I can take no delight in the effusion of human Blood; but, if this War should continue, I wish to have the most active part in it
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A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
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Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage.
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The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight. (Proverbs 15: 8)
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By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.
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Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
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There is no delight in owning anything unshared.
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These studies are a spur to the young, a delight to the old; an ornament in prosperity, a consoling refuge in adversity; they are pleasure for us at home, and no burden abroad; they stay up with us at night, they accompany us when we travel, they are
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Such is the way of all superstition, whether in astrology, dreams, omens, divine judgments, or the like; wherein men, having a delight in such vanities, mark the events where they are fulfilled, but where they fail, though this happen much oftener, n
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You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company
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High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring
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It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!
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Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment
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To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman
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War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, The lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.
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Work is the order of the day, just as it was at one time, with our first starts and our best efforts. Do you remember? Therein lies its delight. It brings back the forgotten; one's stores of energy, seemingly exhausted, come back to life.
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The world is so full of care and sorrow that it is a gracious debt we owe to one another to discover the bright crystals of delight hidden in somber circumstances and irksome tasks
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Yes, social friend, I love thee well, In learned doctor's spite; Thy clouds all other clouds dispel, And lap me in delight.
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There is space within sisterhood for likeness and difference, for the subtle differences that challenge and delight; there is space for disappointment-and surprise
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It's an optical lover's delight.
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I'm confident he could come back as PM within a year. It will be the time that those who cried over his departure will scream with delight.
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