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All the world's bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several... by Abraham Cowley

All the world's bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.

Abraham Cowley
delight eye bravery

I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all the extraneous delights should be withheld or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.

Adrienne Rich
delight alive giving

Those persons are happiest in this restless and mutable world who are in love with change, who delight in what is new simply because it differs from what is old; who rejoice in every innovation, and find a strange alert pleasure in all that is, and that has never been before.

Agnes Repplier
delight innovation change

In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.

Agnes Repplier
delight diaries men
Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui. by Agnes Repplier

Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.

Agnes Repplier
leisure delight guests

All I can say is if the part doesn't delight me in some way, or I can't feel any compassion for it, I just can't do it.

Alan Arkin
delight compassion way

You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite.

Alan Cohen
kites delight littles

In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not forecasted, happenings without explanation, retrospective.

Alan Lightman
delight events artist
Love and delight are better teachers than compulsion. by Albrecht Durer

Love and delight are better teachers than compulsion.

Albrecht Durer
compulsion delight teacher

What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: "It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace." But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit; and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.

Alexander Pope
delight care war
True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is i... by Alexander Pope

True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is in the pursuit.

Alexander Pope
delight athlete sports
How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight! by Alexander Pope

How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!

Alexander Pope
glowing delight guilt

Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions. Trade loves moderation, delights in compromise, and is most careful to avoid anger. It is patient, supple, and insinuating, only resorting to extreme measures in cases of absolute necessity.

Alexis de Tocqueville
delight passion enemy
And was the day of my delight As pure and perfect as I say? by Alfred Lord Tennyson

And was the day of my delight As pure and perfect as I say?

Alfred Lord Tennyson
pure delight perfect

And what delights can equal those That stir the spirit's inner deeps, When one that loves but knows not, reaps A truth from one that loves and knows?

Alfred Lord Tennyson
delight equal spirit
The delight that consumes the desire, The desire that outruns the... by Algernon Charles Swinburne

The delight that consumes the desire, The desire that outruns the delight.

Algernon Charles Swinburne
outrun delight desire
Some time all kinds of letters will be published to the ineffable... by Alice B. Toklas

Some time all kinds of letters will be published to the ineffable delight of endless readers.

Alice B. Toklas
delight kind letters

Work becomes at once a delight and a tyrant. For even when the time comes and you can relax, you hardly know how.

Alice Foote MacDougall
delight tyrants relax

I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.'

Alice Walker
delight enough men

HELPED are those who are shown the existence of the Creator's magic in the Universe; they shall experience delight and astonishment without ceasing.

Alice Walker
astonishment delight magic
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