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The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.
Until you have courted the bluebills in the snow, you have not tasted of the purer delights of waterfowling
To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change of circumstances and varieties of fortune.
It's the anarchy of poverty delights me, the old yellow wooden house indented among the new brick tenements
From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
I broke my wrist on TV trying to do a one-armed push-up. A lot of people delight in pointing this out to me.
Ah, reality TV: where opportunists delight in exposing opportunism! It's kind of like the indie music scene.
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?
Hope is sweet-minded and sweet-eyed. It draws pictures; it weaves fancies; it fills the future with delight.
Love with delight discourses in my mindUpon my lady's admirable gifts...Beyond the range of human intellect.
I have 17 nieces and nephews, who are a pure delight. We have hiked and biked and fasted and prayed together.
I am never happier than when I have something to compose, for that, after all, is my sole delight and passion
It is in recognizing the actual presence of God that we find prayer no longer a chore, but a supreme delight.
It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight.
You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.
There is in this world no real delight (excepting those of sensuality), but exchange of ideas in conversation.
Cristin Milioti! Who you might know from 'How I Met Your Mother' or 'The Wolf of Wall Street.' A pure delight.
Books delight us when prosperity smiles upon us; they comfort us inseparably when stormy fortune frowns on us.
Mozart combined high formality and playfulness that delights as no other composition in any other medium does.
The best sort of activity is one that combines mental effort with sensuous delight. That's why I love drawing.
The beauty of You delights me. The sight of You amazes me. For the Pearl does this... and the Ocean does that.
Missions is the overflow of our delight in God because missions is the overflow of God's delight in being God.
Happiness is boundlessly weird. Other people's choices often seem to delight them, where I would run screaming.
This is true religion, to approve what God approves, to hate what he hates, and to delight in what delights him
To work for delight and authentic festivity is barely distinguishable from preparing for a general insurrection
The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society.
What can an eternity of damnation matter to someone who has felt, if only for a second, the infinity of delight?
Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.
Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.
...there is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful ones in meditation.
The message of a leopard-print jumpsuit is clear: 'I am a huntress who delights in eating the offal of her prey.'
You are far more likely to do your best work if you are willing to delight a few as opposed to soothe the masses.
Spread the seeds of encouragement far and wide, and delight in the bountiful harvest that they will surely bring.
To wait on God is to live a life of desire toward Him, delight in Him, dependence on Him, and devotedness to Him.
The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights.
Work becomes at once a delight and a tyrant. For even when the time comes and you can relax, you hardly know how.
How do you know but ev’ry Bird that cuts the airy way, Is an immense world of delight, clos’d by your senses five?
The extreme delight we experience in talking about ourselves should warn us that those who listen do not share it.
I get little kids who recognize me from 'Mary Poppins,' and it just delights me because it's our third generation.
We long for more and God's promise is that there is more awaiting us. More to delight us than we will ever exhaust.
Either be a true friend or a mere stranger: a true friend will delight to do good--a mere stranger will do no harm.
As for plenty, we had not only for necessity, conveniency and decency, but for delight and pleasure to superfluity.
I delight in my family obligations, but they leave little time for breaks let alone quick trips across the country.
This very moment of your life, if you experience it fully, will show you astonishing wonders and exquisite delights.
No one can be a good Christian who does not with holy zeal set out to know, delight in, and live by the Word of God!
Daphne knows, with equal ease, How to vex and how to please; But the folly of her sex Makes her sole delight to vex.
What I've learned the more time I've spent following Jesus is that God delights in answering our impossible prayers.
All great natures delight in stability; all great men find eternity affirmed in the very promise of their faculties.
Close interaction with farmers and scientists can expose the chef to new flavours that can be used to delight diners.