Ovid Quotes, Joy Quotes, Mind Quotes

The poet's labors are a work of joy, and require peace of mind.

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An improper art aims at exciting in the way of comedy the feeling of desire but the feeling which is proper to comic art is the feeling of joy.

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And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds and binding with briars my joys and desires. (from 'The Garden of Love')

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What's done is done. The joy is in the doing.

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O the joy of my spirit--it is uncaged--it darts like lightning! It is not enough to have this globe or a certain time, I will have thousands of globes and all time.

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Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.

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Work as joy, inaccessible to the psychologists.

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As we have said, robust souls are sometimes almost, but not entirely, overthrown by strokes of misfortune....Despair has steps leading upward. From total depression we rise to despondency, from despondency to affliction, from affliction to melancholy. Melancholy is a twilight state in which suffering transmutes into a somber joy....Melancholy is the enjoyment of being sad.

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On with the dance, let the joy be unconfined.

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A Letter is a Joy of Earth - It is denied the Gods

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But here's the joy: my friend and I are one, Sweet flattery!

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Surprise is the secret of joy.

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May Christ be our joy, our confidence, our all. May we daily be made more like to Him, and more devoted to His service.

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The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

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I don't miss the obligation to be opinionated, but I do regret the chance to share a joy.

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Work may be your dominant thought, and joy an afterthought. But joy is your true purpose, and work the afterthought.

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Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.

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Children at once accept joy and happiness with quick familiarity, being themselves naturally all happiness and joy.

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The joy of killing! the joy of seeing killing done - these are traits of the human race at large.

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The human being places sexual intercourse above all other joys, but leaves it out of his heaven.

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