All in heaven take joy in sharing their delights and blessings with others. ~ Emanuel Swedenborg

Delight is a word indicating sensations of pleasure or joy, or the process of giving pleasure or happiness.

Quotes

• 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, Part I, Section 14.

• Man delights not me: no, nor woman neither, though, by your smiling, you seem to say so.
  • William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1600-02), Act II, scene 2, line 321.

• Why, all delights are vain; and that most vain,
  Which with pain purchas'd, doth inherit pain.
  • William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost (c. 1595-6), Act I, scene 1, line 72.

• Their tables were stor'd full, to glad the sight,
  And not so much to feed on as delight:
  All poverty was scorn'd, and pride so great,
  The name of help grew odious to repeat.
  • William Shakespeare, Pericles, Prince of Tyre (c. 1607-08), Act I, scene 4, line 28.

• 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 (1597), Act II, scene 6, line 9.

• All in heaven take joy in sharing their delights and blessings with others.
  • Emanuel Swedenborg, Heaven and Hell #399.

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