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Quotations on Delight

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by Edmund Burke
(January 12, 1729 - July 9, 1797)

I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others.

by William Shakespeare
(April 23, 1564 - April 23, 1616)

Man delights not me nor woman neither, though, by your smiling you seem to say so.

by William Shakespeare
(April 23, 1564 - April 23, 1616)

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

by William Shakespeare
(April 23, 1564 - April 23, 1616)

This Tharsus, o'er which I have the government, A city on whom Plenty held full hand, For Riches strewed herself even in her streets; Whose towers bore heads so high they kissed ...

by William Shakespeare
(April 23, 1564 - April 23, 1616)

Why, all delights are vain, but that most vain Which, with pain purchased, doth inherit pain: As, painfully to pore upon a book, To seek the light of truth, which truth the whil ...



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