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“The moving accident is not my trade; To freeze the blood I have no ready arts: 'Tis my delight, alone in summer shade, To pipe a simple song for thinking hearts.”

Thinking Heart Art Moving Song Simple Blood Ready Summer Trade Delight Accidents Shade Pipe Freeze

Author:William Wordsworth

“What is precious is never to forget, The delight of the blood drawn from ancient springs, Breaking through rocks in worlds before our earth; Never to deny its pleasure in the simple morning light, Nor its grave evening demand for love; Never to allow gradually the traffic to smother, With noise and fog the flowering of the spirit.”

World Light Earth Spirit Simple Forget Pleasure Morning Blood Rocks Demand Spring Ancient Delight Deny Graves Noise Evening Traffic Fog Flowering Morning Light

Author:Stephen Spender

“If nature did not take delight in blood, She would have made more easy ways to good.”

Ifs Way Made Easy Blood Atheism Delight Positive Atheism Easy Way

Author:Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

“Unlike music or poetry or painting, food rouses no response in passionate and emotional youth. Only when the surge of the blood is quieted does gastronomy come into its own with philosophy and theology and the sterner delights of the mind.”

Mind Doe Philosophy Blood Food Youth Emotional Painting Response Passionate Delight Theology No Response

Book:The Documents in the Case

Source: The Documents in the Case

“An honorable Peace is and always was my first wish! I can take no delight in the effusion of human Blood; but, if this War should continue, I wish to have the most active part in it.”

Ifs Should Firsts Humans I Can War Wish Blood Delight Active Honorable

Author:John Paul Jones

“To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.”

Ifs History Blood Delight Arrogant Aggression Angle

Book:The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society, Volume VII, Book Two

Source: The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society, Volume VII, Book Two

“I used many times to touch my own chest and feel, under its asthmatic quiver, the engine of the heart and lungs and blood and feel amazed at what I sensed was the enormity of the power I possessed. Not magical power, but real power. The power simply to go on, the power to endure, that is power enough, but I felt I had also the power to create, to add, to delight, to amaze and to transform.”

Feels Heart Real Enough Used Felt My Own Blood Goes On Add Endure Delight Chests Engines Possessed Amazed Lungs Real Power Quiver

Author:Stephen Fry