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“On a feeling and sensitive mind a demolished forest impresses unmingled sadness, whereas its primeval grandeur must inspire anyone to immeasurable delight, who is susceptible to the beauties of nature.”

Mind Feelings Beauty Environment Sadness Inspire Delight Forests Sensitive Impress Grandeur Susceptible Nature Beauty Primeval

Author:Ferdinand von Mueller

“On Man, on Nature, and on Human Life, Musing in solitude, I oft perceive Fair trains of images before me rise, Accompanied by feelings of delight Pure, or with no unpleasing sadness mixed.”

Men Humans Feelings Sadness Pure Solitude Fairs Train Delight Perceive Human Life Musings

Author:William Wordsworth

“But what of life whose bitter hungry sea Flows at our heels, and gloom of sunless night Covers the days which never more return? Ambition, love and all the thoughts that burn We lose too soon, and only find delight In withered husks of some dead memory.”

Night Loses Memories Sea Sadness Return Sad Ambition Flow Delight Hungry Bitter Heels Gloom Withered

Book:The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Poems and poems in prose

Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Poems and poems in prose

“In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.”

Men Real Running Nature Sadness He Man Sorrow Delight Spite One With Nature The Wild Nature

Book:The Annotated Emerson

Source: The Annotated Emerson

“Architecture begins to matter when it brings delight and sadness and perplexity and awe along with a roof over our heads.”

Matter Sadness Delight Architecture Awe Roof Perplexity

Book:Why Architecture Matters

Source: Why Architecture Matters

“There is no joy for the one who does not bear sadness, there is no sweetness for the one who does not have patience, there is no delight for the one who does not suffer, and there is no relaxation for the one who does not endure fatigue.”

Doe Joy Suffering Sadness Bears Endure Delight Sweetness Relaxation Fatigue Having Patience

Author:Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

“God alone can do what seems impossible. This is the promise of his grace: 'I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten' (Joel 2:25). God can give back all those years of sorrow, and you will be the better for them. God will grind sunlight out of your black nights. In the oven of affliction, grace will prepare the bread of delight. Someday you will thank God for all your sadness.”

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Author:Charles Spurgeon

“My hope for all of us is that 'the miles we go before we sleep' will be filled with all the feelings that come from deep caring--delight , sadness, joy, wisdom--and that in all the endings of our life, we will be able to see the new beginnings.”

Feelings Able Joy Sleep Our Lives Sadness Filled Delight Caring Miles New Beginnings

Book:The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember

Source: The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember