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The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.: Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.: Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatest, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our lives.: Sri Madhava
You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
Children are very nice observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.: Francois de Fenelon (1651 - 1715)
I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind... At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme, I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy, and wise in spite of themselves.: Robertson Davies, The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks, 1947
He who knows others is wise; He who know himself is enlightened.: Lao-tzu (604 BC - 531 BC), The Way of Lao-tzu

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