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All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs...

All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame

Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge about love

Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to...

Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own.

Quote by Emanuel Swedenborg about love

With these real smart men in power, if we could just think of a new way to solve this problem without war, I think people would be so happy and delighted with America.

Quote by F. Murray Abraham about intelligence, happiness, war, power, real estate, man, people

Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

Quote by Francis Bacon about ability

That he delights in the misery of others no man will...

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

Quote by Joseph Addison about man

Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful...

Quote by Louisa May Alcott about olderness, youth, success, age, old, work, day, time, life, contentment

I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so...

I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about good, good luck

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's...

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

Quote by Marcus Aurelius about change, nature, nothing

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.

Quote by Jane Austen about beauty, life

So it was scary, but that's how it goes. To my great...

So it was scary, but that's how it goes. To my great delight, I discovered that it did all belong.

Quote by Michael Chabon

I don't understand people who like to work and talk about it like it was some sort of goddamn duty. Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.

Quote by Ava Gardner about duty, water, perfection, nothing, work, people

In Europe we thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also a great giver of happiness and well being and delight. Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me...

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about wine, drinking, food, happiness, thinking, being

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Quote by Herodotus about death, man

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is...

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about autumn, flowers, spring, man

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and...

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

Quote by Samuel Beckett about companies, miracle, contentment

A lot of the guys were like that - Oscar Pettiford - they just took me under their wing, and that's why I automatically help young people. I just love it, because they did that for me.

Quote by Quincy Jones about help, love, people

Count Basie practically adopted me at 13. We became...

Count Basie practically adopted me at 13. We became closer and closer and I ended up conducting for him and Sinatra.

Quote by Quincy Jones

Eight kids and a stepmother, and I just wanted to be out of there and so when I got a scholarship from Boston to the Schillinger House, which is now the Berklee School of Music, I couldn't wait to get out of there.

Quote by Quincy Jones about home, house, school, music

I chose the trombone because the trombone players in the marching band got to be up front with the majorettes (because of the slides) and I loved that!

Quote by Quincy Jones

I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.

Quote by Quincy Jones about home, writing, music

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