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Please Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
- Were we as eloquent as angels we still would please people much more by listening rather than talking.
- Men are more readily contented with no intellectual light than with a little; and wherever they have been taught to acquire some knowledge in order…
- It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them.
- No man can promise himself even fifty years of life, but any man may, if he please, live in the proportion of fifty years in…
- It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and not a very arduous task to astonish them; but essentially to benefit and…
- He that aspires to be the head of a party will find it more difficult to please his friends than to perplex his foes. He…
- A Christian builds his fortitude on a better foundation than stoicism; he is pleased with every thing that happens, because he knows it could not…
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- Please don't make the mistake of thinking that 'Oryx and Crake' is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and a tool.… — Margaret Atwood
- O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue… — Teresa of Avila
- Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone… — Teresa of Avila
- After the $700 billion bailout, the trillion-dollar stimulus, and the massive budget bill with over 9,000 earmarks, many of you implored Washington… — Michele Bachmann
- Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory. — Francis Bacon
- Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets… — Glenn Beck
- PLease, do not visualize that we exist above you such as in heaven. The concepts above and below are products of your… — Hans Bender
- I think the journey for a politician goes from wanting to please all the people all the time, to a political leader… — Tony Blair