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Last updated on November 17, 2024.
Has any psychological experiment yielded a more delightful suggestion than this one: that there is a part of the mind without ambition or information, which nonetheless is expert on what is beautiful?
On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows.
If the heart has been reformed by the spirit, it makes use of both the useful and delightful things created and given by God in a holy manner and with thanksgiving.
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
My children are delightful people, whom I would love even if they weren't my children.
Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. How delightful if that were true.
How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and positive in the world around them.
She had nothing to wish otherwise, but that the days did not pass so swiftly. It was a delightful visit;-perfect, in being much too short.
With the crime novels, its delightful to have protagonists I can revisit in book after book. Its like having a fictitious family.
Oh, my young friends, how delightful is the beginning of a love-business, and how undignified, sometimes, the end!
I've taken classes most of my life, and it's no secret among my friends I want to be in a movie about dance. Maybe 'Step Up 2,' with the delightful Channing Tatum.
There is for a free man no occupation more worthy and delightful than to contemplate the beauteous works of nature and honor the infinite wisdom and goodness of God.
Theories have been outgrown. The means is disappearing, the reality of the sensation alone remains. It is that in its essence which I wish to put down. It should be a delightful adventure.
Denmark has long been regarded as one of the world's most attractive nations, for citizens and tourists alike. My own visits there, years ago as a student, were delightful.
With the crime novels, it's delightful to have protagonists I can revisit in book after book. It's like having a fictitious family.
The day was so delightful that I wished one could live slowly as one can play music slowly.
A cricketer's life is a life of splendid freedom, healthy effort, endless variety, and delightful good fellowship.
If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man.
I remember when I was a kid, whenever you'd see cartoons cross over with each other, it always ranged from a delightful, magical surprise to a cynical, annoying cash grab.
Pleasant experiences make life delightful. Painful experiences lead to growth.
Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.
The American woman is a charming creature. She is of a type most unusual and delightful... And their feet and ankles are the most perfect in the world.
You might as well take the sun out of the sky as friendship from life: for the immortal gods have given us nothing better or more delightful.
There's something that's delightful about things getting bigger and more over-the-top. Sometimes it's empty, and other times, it's just fun.
We live in the future. Even the happiness of the present is made up mostly of that delightful discontent which the hope of better things inspires.
Reviewing the day's lessons. Isn't it joyful? Friends come from far. Isn't it delightful? One has never been angry at other's misunderstanding. Isn't he a respectable man?
The most powerful sign is that your work no longer enchants you - it's not deep, delightful, and mutually satisfying. When this happens, it may be time to look for new challenges.
A favor is to a grateful man delightful always; to an ungrateful man only once.
Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.
No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.
As mayor in an executive position, I have to dress more like an executive, which has been delightful.
I would never ever condone any violence of any kind. But in the theater of fiction, blood is delightful.
A certain person may have, as you say, a wonderful presence; I do not know. What I do know is that he has a perfectly delightful absence.
Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.
Suffering also has its worth. Through sorrow, pride is driven out And pity felt for those who wander in samsara; Evil is avoided, goodness seems delightful.
In discussing these exceptions from the course of nature, the first question is, whether the fact be justly stated. That which is strange is delightful, and a pleasing error is not willingly detected.
Delightful, tragic, gloriously elegiac and riddled with puns-Close to Hugh is just like life, only so much more beautiful for being art.
Removing prejudices is, alas! too often removing the boundary of a delightful near prospect in order to let in a shockingly extensive one.
I never enjoyed my work more than when I worked with William Powell. He was a brilliant actor, a delightful companion, a great friend and, above all, a true gentleman.
Man is endogenous, and education is his unfolding. The aid we have from others is mechanical, compared with the discoveries of nature in us. What is thus learned is delightful in the doing, and the effect remains.
It is the most delightful thing that ever happens to me, when I hear something coming out of my guitar and out of my mouth that wasn't there before.
I would like to be going all over the kingdom...and acting everywhere. There's nothing in the world equal to seeing the house rise at you, one sea of delightful faces, one hurrah of applause!
It seems to me that the most delightful walk of life is to be found in a household of moderate means, to live there with an obliging spouse and to be satisfied with little.
The Golden Temple, Sikhism's holiest shrine, is in northwestern India near the Pakistani border, and it is a delightful place to contemplate the draw of faith.
Hardcovers will never completely disappear. They are delightful to hold; they feel weighty and substantial. But my anecdotal evidence suggests that the world is changing.
My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves, chearful meadows, and high distant forests, which in grand order presented themselves to view.
Which is why you chose to wear that delightful ensemble from the skank-wear collection at Hoes-n-Thangs?" -Tommy
Then amongst flowers and springs,
Making delightful sport,
Sat lovers without conflict, without flame
That would be delightful,' agreed Flora, thinking how nasty and boring it would be.
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
There is nothing in the animal world, to my mind, more delightful than grown cats at play. They are so swift and light and graceful, so subtle and designing, and yet so richly comic.
To rejoice in life, to find the world beautiful and delightful to live in, was a mark of the Greek spirit which distinguished it from all that had gone before. It is a vital distinction.
I love the French language... it's a delightful language, especially to curse with. It's like whopping your ass with silk.
No stile of writing is so delightful as that which is all pith, which never omits a necessary word, nor uses an unnecessary one.
Nature loves nothing solitary, and always reaches out to something, as a support, which ever in the sincerest friend is most delightful.
I have friends whose society is delightful to me; they are persons of all countries and of all ages; distinguished in war, in council, and in letters; easy to live with, always at my command.
Don't plan without God. God seems to have a delightful way of upsetting the plans we have made, when we have not taken Him into account.
Research, though toilsome, is easy; imagination, though delightful, is difficult.
You build inner strength through embracing the totality of your experience, both the delightful parts and the difficult parts.
