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delight

«The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.»
Author: Isaac Asimov (Biochemist, Writer) | Keywords: delight
«To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.»
«The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.»
«The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.»
«To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman»
«The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled.»
«The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry»
«To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.»
«The world is so full of care and sorrow that it is a gracious debt we owe to one another to discover the bright crystals of delight hidden in somber circumstances and irksome tasks»
«The moon, like a flowerIn heaven's high bower,With silent delightSits and smiles on the night.»