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A sip is the most than mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight. - Amos Bronson Alcott I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others. - Edmund Burke, The Sublime and Beautiful (pt. I, sec. 14) The last excessive feelings of delight are always grave. - Leigh Hunt (James Henry Leigh Hunt) Man delights not me--nor woman neither, though, by your smiling you seem to say so. - William Shakespeare, Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at II, ii) Why, all delights are vain, but that most vain Which, with pain purchased, doth inherit pain: As, painfully to pore upon a book, To seek the light of truth, which truth the while Doth falsely blind the eyesight of his look. - William Shakespeare, Love's Labor's Lost (Berowne at I, i) This Tharsus, o'er which I have the government, A city on whom Plenty held full hand, For Riches strewed herself even in her streets; Whose towers bore heads so high they kissed the clouds, And strangers ne'er beheld but wond'red at; Whose men and dames so jetted and adorned, Like one another's glass to trim them by; Their tables were stored full, to glad the sight, And not so much to feed on as delight; All poverty was scorned, and pride so great The name of help grew odious to repeat. - William Shakespeare, Pericles Prince of Tyre (Cleon at I, iv) These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which, as they kiss, consume. - William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (Friar Laurence at II, vi) A lonely impulse of delight. - William Butler Yeats
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