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“False world, thou ly'st: thou canst not lend The least delight: Thy favours cannot gain a friend, They are so slight.”

World Gains Delight Favour

Book:Emblems divine and moral, together with Hieroglyphics of the life of man

Source: Emblems divine and moral, together with Hieroglyphics of the life of man

“Those who delight in bad movies and enjoy producing their own unfilmed versions of Mystery Science Theater 3000 may gain a measure of semi-masochistic enjoyment out of Van Helsing . There are quite a few unintentionally funny moments, although the overall experience was too intensely painful for me to be able to advocate it as being "so bad, it's good."”

May Moments Able Enjoy Mystery Gains Theater Painful Delight Versions Enjoyment Vans Bad Movies Masochistic Van Helsing Funny Moments

Author:James Berardinelli

“And I feel that we in our society should not be held by any such myth; that we should do everything we can to gain a delight and joy in our society with all the available parts of the palette.”

Feels Should Joy Artist Gains Delight Available Myth Our Society Palette

Author:Minoru Yamasaki

“Billy was fascinated by the television. At its most basic level, it occupied his time and shut out the demons of isolation. This was another irony because, for so long, he had shunned the tube for a similar purpose-to prevent it from bombarding his brain with demons of banality. However, each time he turned the machine on, he began to discover a world of assorted delights, as well as gain insight into the insidious manner in which this medium was shaping the mass psyche. If nothing else, he learned there was nothing innocuous about it.”

Ifs World Wells Long Purpose Levels Brain Television Mass Gains Machines Delight Insight Mediums Irony Demon Isolation Fascinated Tubes Insidious Banality Assorted

Book:The Petting Zoo: A Novel

Source: The Petting Zoo: A Novel

“What will it profit a man if he gains his cause and silences his adversary if at the same time he loses that humble, tender frame of spirit in which the Lord delights, and to which the promise of his presence is made?”

Ifs Men Made Spirit Causes Loses Silence Lord Promise Gains Profit Delight Humble Adversaries

Book:The works of the rev. John Newton

Source: The works of the rev. John Newton

“The nude gains its enduring value from the fact that it reconciles several contrary states. It takes the most sensual and immediately interesting object, the human body, and puts it out of reach of time and desire; it takes the most purely rational concept of which mankind is capable, mathematical order, and makes it a delight to the senses; and it takes the vague fears of the unknown and sweetens them by showing that the gods are like men and may be worshiped for their life-giving beauty rather than their death-dealing powers.”

“God delights in providing His people with material gain and comfort, although prosperity can pose a threat to spiritual well-being.”

People Wells Spiritual Materials Comfort Gains Threat Prosperity Delight Well Being Providing

Author:Max Anders

“It might be lonelier Without the Loneliness - I’m so accustomed to my Fate - Perhaps the Other - Peace - Would interrupt the Dark - And crowd the little Room - Too scant - by Cubits - to contain The Sacrament - of Him - I am not used to Hope - It might intrude upon - Its sweet parade - blaspheme the place - Ordained to Suffering - It might be easier To fail - with Land in Sight - Than gain - My Blue Peninsula - To perish - of Delight -”

Littles Might Used Suffering Dark Rooms Fate Failing Land Loneliness Sweet Easier Gains Sight Blue Crowds Delight Sacraments Accustomed Parades Peninsulas

Book:Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson

Source: Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson

“It skims in through the eye, and by means of the utterly delicate retina hurls shadows like insect legs inward for translation. Then an immense space opens up in silence and an endlessly fecund sub-universe the writer descends, and asks the reader to descend after him, not merely to gain instructions but also to experience delight, the delight of mind freed from matter and exultant in the strength it has stolen from matter.”

Mind Mean Matter Eye Universe Asks Space Silence Vision Seeing Reader Shadow Gains Delight Legs Awe Instruction Delicate Immense Inward Insects Stolen Translations Through The Eyes

Author:John Updike

“We do not ask what hope of gain makes a little bird warble, since we know that it takes delight in singing because it is for that very singing that the bird was made, so there is no need to ask why the human mind undertakes such toil in seeking out these secrets of the heavens. ... And just as other animals, and the human body, are sustained by food and drink, so the very spirit of Man, which is something distinct from Man, is nourished, is increased, and in a sense grows up on this diet of knowledge, and is more like the dead than the living if it is touched by no desire for these things.”

“Through it [Science] we believe that man will be saved from misery and degradation, not merely acquiring new material powers, but learning to use and to guide his life with understanding. Through Science he will be freed from the fetters of superstition; through faith in Science he will acquire a new and enduring delight in the exercise of his capacities; he will gain a zest and interest in life such as the present phase of culture fails to supply.”