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“Let books be your dining table, / And you shall be full of delights. / Let them be your mattress,/And you shall sleep restful nights”

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Ephrem the Syrian

Ephrem the Syrian was an early Christian saint who lived from 306 to June 9, 373. He was known as a missionary and theologian, having a significant impact on the formation of the Eastern Christian Church. more

“Beauty is for the artist something outside all orders of rank, because in beauty opposites are tamed; the highest sign of power, namely power over opposites; moreover, without tension: - that violence is no longer needed: that everything follows, obeys, so easily and so pleasantly - that is what delights the artist's WILL TO POWER.”

Artist Order Violence Needed Highest Opposites Delight Tension Will Power Tamed

Book:The Will to Power

Source: The Will to Power

“We were like confirmed opium-eaters: in our moments of reason we well knew the deadly nature of our pursuit, but we certainly were not prepared to abandon its terrible delights.”

Wells Reason Moments Terrible Prepared Delight Pursuit Abandon Opium

Book:Delphi Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)

“Well, when I moved to L.A. at 17, I had just come out of high school. I grew up and went to public school in Boston.”

Wells School Grew Grew Up High School Moved Boston Public School

Author:Eliza Dushku

“You've never told me about your love life, Scarlett. You're a very pretty girl. You must have a boy shacked up somewhere for your personal delights. I'd bet it's a booky one, overtones of Harry Potter and a lot of black T-shirts.”

Girl Black Boys Delight Shirts Love Life Harry Potter T Shirt Potters Pretty Girl

Author:Maureen Johnson

“Aesthetic racism is almost always a sign of inexperience. Those who have not made their way far enough into the world of amorous delights judge women only by what can be seen. But those who really know women understand that the eye reveals only a minute fraction of what a woman can offer us. When God bade mankind be fruitful and multiply, Doctor, He was thinking of the ugly as well as of the beautiful. I am convinced I might add, that the aesthetic criterion does not come from God but from the devil. In paradise no distinction was made between ugliness and beauty.”

“To be a poet is to place pleasure, beauty and sensual delights front and centre, it means having a predilection for debauchery.”

Mean Pleasure Fronts Poet Delight Sensual Centre Debauchery

Book:Mobility of light: the poetry of Nicole Brossard : a bilingual publication

Source: Mobility of light: the poetry of Nicole Brossard : a bilingual publication

“A sentimentalist is one who delights to have high and devout emotions stirred whilst reading in an arm-chair, or in a prayer meeting, but he never translates his emotions into action. Consequently a sentimentalist is usually callous, self-centred and selfish, because the emotions he likes to have stirred do not cost him anything.”

Self Action Reading Prayer Emotion Arms Cost Meetings Delight Selfish Likes Chairs Translate Callous Prayer Meeting

Book:The Quotable Oswald Chambers

Source: The Quotable Oswald Chambers

“Gail Sheehy tells us that "the delights of self-discovery are always available." All Fools' Day is the perfect day to engrave this wisdom in our hearts.”

Heart Self Perfect Fool Discovery Delight Available Self Discovery Perfect Days Fools Day Engrave Gail

Author:Sarah Ban Breathnach

“Love was something different. Love was pure delight, a fountain of emotions, sensual delights, and enjoying spending time together.”

Different Together Enjoy Emotion Pure Delight Spending Sensual Fountain Spending Time Time Together

Book:Day watch

Source: Day watch

“Religiously, we longed for the lively life in Christ, but we did not fully see that we were equally longing for the lively life of the mind - the delights of conversation at once serious and gay, which is, whatever its subject, Christ or poetry or history, the ultimately civilized thing.”

Mind Christ Subjects Serious Gay Conversation Longing Delight Civilized Lively

Author:Sheldon Vanauken

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