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- In spiritual life there is no room for compromise. Awakening is not negotiable; we cannot bargain to hold on to things that… — Jack Kornfield
- There are people who in spite of their merit disgust us and others who please us in spite of their faults. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- Men are simple creatures. It doesn't take much to please us. The problem is women. — Tom Cotton
- It is not doubted, and you know it, that Ireland and all those islands which have received the faith, belong to the… — Unknown Author
- Nothing would please us more than to see our beloved children form the habit of reading the Gospels - not merely from… — Pope Pius X
- The Scripture stories do not, like Homer’s, court our favor, they do not flatter us that they may please us and enchant… — Erich Auerbach
- The things which belong to others please us more, and that which is ours, is more pleasing to others — Publilius Syrus
- Tower'd cities please us then, And the busy hum of men. — John Milton
- When we have practiced good actions awhile, they become easy; when they are easy, we take pleasure in them; when they please… — John Tillotson
- As distant prospects please us, but when near We find but desert rocks and fleeting air — Samuel Garth
- It hardly needs explaining at length, I think, how much authority or beauty is added to style by the timely use of… — Desiderius Erasmus
- Women, as they are like riddles in being unintelligible, so generally resemble them in this, that they please us no longer once… — Alexander Pope