Best long & delight Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Call'd to the temple of impure delight He that abstains, and he alone, does right. If a wish wander that way, call it home; He cannot long be safe whose wishes roam.”

Ifs Way Long Doe Home Wish Safe Delight Wander Temples Temperance

Book:Table Talk, and Other Poems, by William Cowper, of the Inner Temple, Esq

Source: Table Talk, and Other Poems, by William Cowper, of the Inner Temple, Esq

“When all within is peace How nature seems to smile Delights that never cease The live-long day beguile”

Inspirational Long Seems Nature Delight Cease Long Day

Book:The Works of Cowper and Thompson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country. With a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson

Source: The Works of Cowper and Thompson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country. With a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson

“The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence; it enlarges the imagined range for self to move in: but in after years it can only continue to be joy on the same terms as other long-lived love--that is, by much suppression of self, and power of living in the experience of another.”

Years Firsts Long Self Moving Joy Mother Term Love Is Animal Existence Delight Range Sensibility Expansion Absorbing Suppression Mother's Love

Book:Felix Holt: The Radical

Source: Felix Holt: The Radical

“And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”

Source: The Prophet - Der Prophet

“Were a man to live as long as Methuselah, and to spend all his days in the highest delights sin can offer, one hour of the anguish and tribulation that must follow, would far outweigh them.”

Men Long Hours Sin Offers Highest Delight Anguish Tribulation One Hour Methuselah

Book:A commentary upon the holy Bible: Job to Salomon's song

Source: A commentary upon the holy Bible: Job to Salomon's song

“But the sound of water escaping from mill-dams, &c., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork, I love such things. Shakespeare could make everything poetical; he tells us of poor Tom's haunts among "sheep cotes and mills." As long as I do paint, I shall never cease to paint such places. They have always been my delight.”

Long Sound Water Poor Paint Delight Cease Posts Sheep Toms Rotten Escaping Mills Dams Sound Of Water

Author:John Constable

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