Quotes About Delights

Our labor here is brief, but the reward is eternal. Do not be disturbed by the clamor of the world, which passes like a shadow. Do not let false delights of a deceptive world deceive you.

When a novel has 200 000 words, then it is possible for the reader to experience 200 000 delights, and to turn back to the first page of the book and experience them all over again, perhaps more intensely.

I actually have a lot of guilty pleasures.

Whatever brief delights it provides, mere strangeness in poetry and prose eventually leaves us cold, especially when we suspect the writer is stretching for effect to avoid the actual life before his eyes.

Sake The jewel which brightly shines at night Is precious, but cannot measure up To the delights of drinking sake, Drowning one's troubles in the cup. Otomo no Tabito

Recreations for a student must be especially for the exercise of his body, he having before him such variety of delights for his mind; and they must be as whetting is with the mower, only to be used so far as is necessary to his work.

These violent delights have violent ends And in their triump die, like fire and powder Which, as they kiss, consume

And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? man delights not me; no, nor woman neither.

For fortune delights to strike down those who are too high and to raise those who are low; and if we do not anticipate trouble, should it come, we shall face it with greater fortitude.

The Bible is an ocean of instruction and wisdom. Dip daily into the vast pool to discover its truths. Dust off that Bible. It has the answers you are looking for, and its delights await you.

I want to be with God all the time. But I don't want to be a monk, or totally give up worldly pleasures. I guess what i want to learn is how to live in this world and enjoy its delights, but also devote myself to God.

Pure creativity is something better than a necessity; it's a gift. It's the frosting. Our creativity is a wild and unexpected bonus from the universe. It's as if all our gods and angels gathered together and said, "It's tough down there as a human being, we know. Here—have some delights.

Fruits fail and love dies and time ranges; Thou art fed with perpetual breath, and alive after infinite changes, And fresh from the kisses of death, Of langours rekindled and rallied, Of barren delights and unclean, Things monstrous and fruitless, a pallid And poisonous queen.

God gave the Angels wings and humans chocolate. Mrs. Miracle

How small these rescued tides appear! Earthly delights flow in torrents. Each object offers paradise.

Trump delights in building his campaigns around white Americans' racial anxieties.

I love reference books, especially collections of memorable quotations, world almanacs, and atlases. Facts to me are like candy or popcorn, small, tasty delights, and I like to gorge on them now and then.

Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.

All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.

Une philosophie du vice Passa pour science des délices

The point is not to read widely so that your voice will be sort of a mutt descended from them all. The point is to read widely enough to know what delights you, what you would like to imitate, and what you want to stay away from.

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.

Think it not hard if you get not your will, nor your delights in this life; God will have you to rejoice in nothing but himself.

O You Who are hidden, body, soul and divinity, Under the fragile form of bread, You are my life from Whom springs an abundance of graces; And, for me, You surpass the delights of Heaven.