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“The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.”
Oscar Wilde
“Joy delights in Joy”
William Shakespeare
“The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.”
Isaac Asimov
“The Lord your God is with you, he is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, he will quiet you with his love, he will rejoice over you with singing. (Zephaniah 3:17)”
Zephaniah
“For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life”
William Blake
“For of all gainful professions, nothing is better, nothing more pleasing, nothing more delightful, nothing better becomes a well-bred man than agriculture”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.”
Washington Irving
“Blue color is everlastingly appointed by the Deity to be a source of delight”
John Ruskin
“Then awake! the heavens look bright, my dear; / 'Tis never too late for delight, my dear;/ And the best of all ways / To lengthen our days / Is to steal a few hours from the night, my dear!”
Thomas More
“As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity, I collected some of their Proverbs, thinking that as the sayings used in a nation mark its character, so the Proverbs of Hell show the nature of Infernal wisdom better than any description of buildings or garments.”
