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Desiderius Erasmus
: War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
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The pleasures which we most rarely experience give us the greatest delight.
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George Eliot :
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We women are always in danger of living too exclusively in the affections; and though our affections are perhaps the best gifts we have, we ought also to have our share of the more independent life -- some joy in things for their own sake. It is piteous to see the helplessness of some sweet women when their affections are disappointed -- because all their teaching has been, that they can only delight in study of any kind for the sake of a personal love. They have never contemplated an independent delight in ideas as an experience which they could confess without being laughed at. Yet surely women need this defense against passionate affliction even more than men.
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The shape and texture of fruit is sensuous and fascinating, but the true delight blossoms when you experience the flavor of these colorful gifts of nature.
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Percy B Shelley :
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War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, The lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.
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Robert C Byrd :
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To contemplate war is to think about the most horrible of human experiences.
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To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
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Denise Levertov :
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Acknowledgement, and celebration, of mystery probably constitutes the most consistent theme of my poetry from its very beginnings. Because it is a matter of which I am conscious, it is possible, however imprecisely, to call it an intellectual position; but it is one which emphasizes the incapacity of reason alone (much though I delight in elegant logic) to comprehend experience, and considers Imagination the chief of human faculties. It must therefore be by the exercise of that faculty that one moves toward faith, and possibly by its failure that one rejects it as delusion. Poems present their testimony as circumstantial evidences, not as closing argument. Where Wallace Stevens says, "God and the imagination are one," I would say that the imagination, which synergizes intellect, emotion and instinct, is the perceptive organ through which it is possible, though not inevitable, to experience God.
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To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.
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We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.
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For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should say, result from paucity of experience.
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Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.
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When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
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The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.
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It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
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In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
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War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
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Fortune favors the audacious.
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A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.
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The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
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