exult

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To be in high spirits; figuratively, to leap for joy; to rejoice in triumph or exceedingly; to triumph; as, an exulting heart.

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Chan's heart knew only greed, but there was within him enough intelligence to wonder before a man who could see all the uselessness of life, and still exult in the possessing of it. Lin Carter

By the sympathy of your human hearts for sin ye shall scent out all the places - whether in church, bedchamber, street, field, or forest - where crime has been committed, and shall exult to behold the whole earth one stain of guilt, one mighty blood spot. Nathaniel Hawthorne

Hark, the glad sound! The Savior comes, The Savior promised long; Let every heart exult with joy, And every voice be song! Philip Doddridge

When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility. G. K. Chesterton

The things we think about, brood on, dwell on, and exult over influence our life in a thousand ways. When we can actually choose the direction of our thoughts instead of just letting them run along the grooves of conditioned thinking, we become the masters of our own lives. Eknath Easwaran

Girl, do not exult in thy wedding dress; see how much trouble lurks behind it. Styrian Proverb

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