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47 quotesThe one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.
Adversity
Horace
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There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.
Mind
Samuel Johnson
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The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
Mind
Joseph Joubert
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Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.
Eyes
Helen Keller
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Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
Adversity
Rose F. Kennedy
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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.
Work
Katherine Mansfield
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There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.
Sincerity
Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)
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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.
Death and Dying
Joaquin Miller
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True disputants are like true sportsman: their whole delight is in the pursuit.
Argument
Alexander Pope
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One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.
Age and Aging
J. B. Priestley
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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
Sun
Arthur Rimbaud
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Danger and delight grow on one stalk.
Danger
Scottish Proverb
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There is no delight in owning anything unshared.
Giving
Seneca
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Sweets grown common lose their dear delight.
Familiarity
William Shakespeare
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To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.
Business
William Shakespeare
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Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.
Tragedies
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, The lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.
War
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
Love
Alexander Smith
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He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
Silence
Sydney Smith
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Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
Beauty
Edmund Spenser
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The most delightful pleasures cloy without variety.
Variety
Publilius Syrus
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I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.
Age and Aging
Oscar Wilde
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun