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delight Quotes

17 of the best book quotes about delight
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“Up to a point he finds the agony delightful.
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“What delicious romance! His true reaction was neither fear nor sorrow--only this deep delight in being with her that colored the banality of his words and made the mawkish seem sad and the posturing seem wise. He would come back--eternally. He should have known!”
03
“But to praise despair is to condemn delight, to embrace violence is to lose hold of everything else.”
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“Jesus doesn’t participate in the rat race. He’s into the slower rhythms of life, like abiding, delighting, and dwelling—all words that require us to trust Him with our place and our pace. Words used to describe us being with Him.”
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“Mrs. Murphy was summoned and gazed with delight upon him: sick infants were her reason for being, she thought there was nothing nicer and more pleasingly dreadful.”
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“What more felicity can fall to creature than to enjoy delight with liberty?”
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A simple tale that will delight lovers of gerbils, which should not be confused with jerboas, which despite the similarity of their name belong to a totally different family, nor with golden hamsters.
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“Also, how I distrust neat designs of life that are drawn upon half sheets of notepaper. What delights me is the confusion, the height, the indifference, and the fury.”
09
“Pretty soon some men came. They were a little surprised to see Johnny in there. They explained to Johnny that they were getting animals for the zoo in the city. They were delighted with Johnny’s bear.”
10
“Jenny had never been in a forest, but strangely enough she was not frightened. The odd smells oozing from the earth and trees delighted her. The farther she went, the more the forest seemed like something that had happened to her long ago.”
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“Both wonderfully timeless and quirky, this unconventional adventure will delight its audience and belongs in most collections.”
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″‘In my box,’ the old man said, ‘that I carry about with me, I’ve other delights besides my show.‘”
13
“The moon was now shining brightly and all the bush was hushed, except for the sound of those little animals who are always busy at night-time. Angelina sniffed the night air with delight and felt very happy as she thought of the baby in her pouch.”
14
He did not raise his to her often: a quick glance now and then sufficed; but it flashed back, each time more confidently, the undisguised delight he drank from hers.
Source: Chapter 10, Paragraph 42
15
his weakness was the only time when I could taste the delight of paying wrong for wrong.”
Source: Chapter 17, Paragraph 49
16
The mere danger gave me a sense of delight.
Source: Chapter 5, Paragraph 38
17
Oh, it’s our delight on a mountain height, with a leg or two to spare!
Source: Chapter 14, Paragraph 10

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