Khalil Gibran Quotes, Law Quotes, Delight Quotes

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.

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I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.'

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They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who delight in it.

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A heightened sense of the observation of nature is one of the chief delights that have come to me through trying to paint.

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The poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should delight him.

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All I can say is if the part doesn't delight me in some way, or I can't feel any compassion for it, I just can't do it.

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Everything that's lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.

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Without music we shall surely perish of drink, morphia, and all sorts of artificial exaggerations of the cruder delights of the senses.

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My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.

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By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.

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Thou movest us to delight in praising Thee; for Thou hast formed us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless till they find rest in Thee.

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What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: "It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace." But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit; and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.

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The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

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To delight in conquest is to delight in slaughter.

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Energy is an eternal delight.

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Often a retrospect delights the mind.

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HELPED are those who are shown the existence of the Creator's magic in the Universe; they shall experience delight and astonishment without ceasing.

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the very fact of the death of someone close to them aroused in all who heard about it, as always, a feeling of delight that he had died and they hadn't.

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Even in the lust of knowledge I feel only my will's delight in begetting and becoming; and if there be innocence in my knowledge it is because my procreative will is in it.

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Satan delights equally in statistics and in quoting scripture.

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