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Please Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.
- Flattery pleases very generally. In the first place, the flatterer may think what he says to be true; but, in the second place, whether he…
- He who endeavors to please must appear pleased.
- "I fly from pleasure," said the prince, "because pleasure has ceased to please; I am lonely because I am miserable, and am unwilling to cloud…
- Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages; and envy feels not its own happiness, but when it may be compared…
- Censure is willingly indulged, because it always implies some superiority: men please themselves with imagining that they have made a deeper search, or wider survey…
- What signifies protesting so against flattery when a person speaks well of one, it must either be true or false, you know if true, let…
- No man, however enslaved to his appetites, or hurried by his passions, can, while he preserves his intellects unimpaired, please himself with promoting the corruption…
- Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail.
- I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty…
- If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him.
- It is easy for a man who sits idle at home, and has nobody to please but himself, to ridicule or censure the common practices…
- Men hate more steadily than they love; and if I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of…
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- In short, all things that please the natural man in this world, are, to a true Christian, only so many crosses and… — Johann Arndt
- If what you see by the eye doesn't please you, then close your eyes and see from the heart. Because the heart… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- 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
- Man is free; yet we must not suppose that he is at liberty to do everything he pleases, for he becomes a… — Giacomo Casanova
- Cling tooth and nail to the following rule: Not to give in to adversity, never to trust prosperity, and always to take… — Seneca the Younger