From heav'nly thoughts all true delight doth spring.
Thomas Campion
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One of my favorite things to do is formulate powers for a character, then come up with their corresponding weaknesses and liabilities. And I delight in world-building: melding the supernatural with the natural, then tweaking and polishing until it feels organic.
Kresley Cole
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LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.
Henry Fielding
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Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.
Friedrich Schiller
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Let it be our delight to find our society in the circle of which Jesus is the center, and let us make those our friends who are the friends of Jesus.
Charles Spurgeon
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I've been reading Tanith Lee since I was a teenager, beginning with 'The Birthgrave' and 'The Storm Lord.' Only recently did I discover, to my delight, how many more of her books I've yet to read.
Neal Asher
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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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A liar often smiles subtly while telling a lie; it's an unconscious expression of his delight in getting away with a whopper.
Pamela Meyer
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The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
Isaac Asimov
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Twins are usually hailed with delight, because they swell the power of the family, though in some instances they are put to death.
John Hanning Speke
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There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.
Mencius
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The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
Robert Frost
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From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born.
Michelangelo
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The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
Joseph Joubert
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When infuriated by an outrageous column, do not be suckered into responding with an abusive e-mail. Pundits so targeted thumb through these red-faced electronic missives with delight, saying 'Hah! Got to 'em.'
William Safire
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I spent many hours ensconced in the local library, reading - nay, devouring - book after book after book. Books were my soul's delight.
Nikki Grimes
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'Middlesex' by Jeffrey Eugenides left me both moved and, at times, laughing out loud in delight.
Kim Edwards
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I'm growing old, I delight in the past.
Henri Matisse
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How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?
Franz Kafka
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'Rapper's Delight' was done in 17 minutes. Just one take, no mistakes, and it went to press from there. The record went platinum in 8 days.
Big Bank Hank
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Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
Marcus Aurelius
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Children will not pretend to be enjoying books, and they will not read books because they have been told that these books are good. They are looking for delight.
Helen Dunmore
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There is much boasting among the young men about their teams as their horse and carts in Cleveland. Most of the Yorkshire men take as much delight in their ox draught as they used to do in their Horse Draught.
Nathaniel Smith
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Nature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of delight.
Daniel Boone
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