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Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man's appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.

Honore de Balzac
delight love-is men

I delight to come to my bearings,... not to live in this restless, nervous, bustling, trivial Nineteenth Century, but stand or sitthoughtfully while it goes by.

Henry David Thoreau
nervous independence delight

But oh! shipmates! on the starboard hand of every woe, there is a sure delight; and higher the top of that delight, than the bottom of the woe is deep.

Herman Melville
woe delight hands

Little mouse," a voice said through the keyhole. "Don't you know the more you wriggle, the greater the cat's delight?

Holly Black
delight cat voice
By turns the nine delight to sing by Homer

By turns the nine delight to sing

Homer
delight inspiration nine
In every sorrowing soul I pour'd delight, And poverty stood smili... by Homer

In every sorrowing soul I pour'd delight, And poverty stood smiling in my sight.

Homer
delight soul sight
To teach is to delight. by Horace

To teach is to delight.

Horace
teach delight

I no longer take pleasure in perishable food or in the delights of this world. I want only God's bread, which is the Flesh of Jesus Christ, formed of the seed of David, and for drink I crave His Blood which is love that cannot perish.

Ignatius of Antioch
delight blood jesus
To me travel is triple delight: anticipation, performance, and re... by Ilka Chase

To me travel is triple delight: anticipation, performance, and recollection.

Ilka Chase
delight anticipation adventure

To withdraw from creatures and repose with Jesus in the Tabernacle is my delight; there I can hide myself and seek rest. There I find a life which I cannot describe, a joy which I cannot make others comprehend, a peace such as is found only under the hospitable roof of our best Friend.

Ignatius of Loyola
delight joy jesus

Pressing the shutter has remained a moment of joyful recognition, comparable to the delight of a child balancing on tiptoe and suddenly, with a small cry of delight, stretching out a hand toward a desired object.

Inge Morath
delight children hands
Let dogs delight to bark and bite, for God hath made them so. by Isaac Watts

Let dogs delight to bark and bite, for God hath made them so.

Isaac Watts
delight religious dog
The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most... by Horace

The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

Horace
delight adversity too-much

Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the richest of fare.

Isaiah
delight soul doe

You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.

Italo Calvino
delight cities giving

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.

J. B. Priestley
delight happiness children
True worship is obedience to God for no other reason than that yo... by J. D. Greear

True worship is obedience to God for no other reason than that you delight in God.

J. D. Greear
delight worship reason
One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth,... by J. B. Priestley

One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.

J. B. Priestley
delight youth age
The true Christian delights to read the Scriptures, because they... by J. C. Ryle

The true Christian delights to read the Scriptures, because they tell him about his beloved Savior.

J. C. Ryle
scripture delight christian

The true Christian delights to hear something about his Master. He likes those sermons best which are full of Christ.

J. C. Ryle
delight masters christian
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