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The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural bein... by Jules Verne

The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.

Jules Verne
supernatural-beings delight mind

Truth sees God, and wisdom contemplates God, and from these two comes a third, a holy and wonderful delight in God, who is love.

Julian of Norwich
delight wonderful two
And what can still delight an inert stone except to become, once... by Julien Gracq

And what can still delight an inert stone except to become, once more, the bed of a raging torrent?

Julien Gracq
delight bed stones

We delight in the mere sight of the delicate glow of fading rays clinging to the surface of a dusky wall, there to live out what little life remains to them.

Junichiro Tanizaki
delight wall sight
I find reading to be a delight, a source of comfort, a way to exp... by Junot Diaz

I find reading to be a delight, a source of comfort, a way to explore.

Junot Diaz
delight reading comfort

Constant labor of one uniform kind destroys the intensity and flow of a man's animal spirits, which find recreation and delight in mere change of activity.

Karl Marx
delight animal men
To work - to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we st... by Katherine Mansfield

To work - to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Katherine Mansfield
delight infinite work

Ruthless, greedy, tyrannical, disreputable... they have had one principle worth all the rest, the principle of delight!

Kenneth Clark
greedy delight principles

Energy is eternal delight; and from the earliest times human beings have tried to imprison it in some durable hieroglyphic. It is perhaps the first of all the subjects of art.

Kenneth Clark
delight energy art

If you're a young person who wants to become an actor, it's really important to walk into a casting room with a sense of yourself and some life experience. You can really delight a room and have them already choose you before you've even said a word!

Kenny Ortega
delight actors important

Then a lawyer said, But what of our laws, master? And he answered: 'You delight in laying down laws. Yet you delight more in breaking them.

Khalil Gibran
laying-down delight law
Deny the world, defy the devil, despise the flesh, and delight yo... by Lady Jane Grey

Deny the world, defy the devil, despise the flesh, and delight yourself only in the Lord.

Lady Jane Grey
delight devil world

JIBO isn't an appliance, it's a companion, one that can interact and react with its human owners in ways that delight instead of disturb.

Lance Ulanoff
owners delight way

Know your lover and what delights him or her, but also what he/she considers inappropriate. After all, you want to whet their appetite and create excitement, rather than make them upset.

Laura Ramirez
upset delight sexy

To consider this desirable would be to delight in the slaughter of men; and he who delights in the slaughter of men cannot get his will in the kingdom.

Laozi
delight would-be men
To delight in conquest is to delight in slaughter. by Laozi

To delight in conquest is to delight in slaughter.

Laozi
slaughter delight war
The last excessive feelings of delight are always grave. by Leigh Hunt

The last excessive feelings of delight are always grave.

Leigh Hunt
delight lasts feelings

We really cannot see what equanimity there is in jerking a lacerated carp out of the water by the jaws, merely because it has no the power of making a noise; for we presume that the most philosophic of anglers would hardly delight in catching a shrieking fish.

Leigh Hunt
delight noise water
God delights to disappoint man's fears. by Lettie Cowman

God delights to disappoint man's fears.

Lettie Cowman
disappoint delight men

When the thing taken into union is perfectly adapted to that which receives it, the result is delight and pleasure and satisfaction.

Leonardo da Vinci
delight unions taken
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