#delight

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment. ↗

— Ben Jonson

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Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight. ↗

— William Safire

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He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life. ↗

— George Sand

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There is no delight in owning anything unshared. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

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As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit. ↗

— Emmanuel Teney

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Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer. ↗

— Barbara de Angelis

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Idle is the day and lantern the hour as I delight in the splendor of your kiss grog. ↗

— Isabel Yosito

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I know not if the dark or bright shall be by lot; if that wherein my hopes delight be best or not. ↗

— Henry Alford

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