Best Pleases Wisdom
305 Pleases quotes by 262 unique authors
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If there is something that you have to do, resist the temptation to do it under duress. Ask yourself, "What's the worst thing that would…
— Esther Hicks
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Satire is at once the most agreeable and most dangerous of mental qualities. It always pleases when it is refined, but we always fear those…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us.
— Plautus
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Be it sculpture, poetry, or narrative fraught with terrible insight... art does endure. It troubles and pleases, inspires, and reminds us that humanity is ever…
— Stephanie Mills
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Whoever can do as he pleases, commands when he entreats.
— Pierre Corneille
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I get letters from people about my work. The thing that pleases me most is that my work touches their feelings. In fact, they don't…
— Andrew Wyeth
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What pleases our mind is not dangerous enough.
— Kazuaki Tanahashi
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A young sailor boy came to see me to-day. It pleases me to have these lads seek me on their return from their first voyage,…
— Maria Mitchell
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Let him who elevates himself above humanity . . . say, if he pleases, "I will never compromise"; but let no one who is not…
— Henry Clay
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Creativity is a god who comes around only when he pleases, and it isn't very often. But when he does come around, he sits at…
— Gary D. Schmidt
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Nothing pleases a woman quite so well as to look so sweet that a man wants to kiss her, and then abuse him for his…
— E. W. Howe
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The most accomplished literary work would be reduced to nothing by carping criticism, if the author would listen to all critics and allow every one…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.
— Khalil Gibran
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Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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I cannot tell you what it means when children recognize. This is about the third generation for me. And when kids that small recognize me,…
— Dick Van Dyke
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The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.
— William Hazlitt
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Some days I'm lucky to squeeze out a page of copy that pleases me, but I get as many as six or seven pages on…
— Dean Koontz
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I claim for Canada this, that in future Canada shall be at liberty to act or not act, to interfere or not interfere, to do…
— Wilfrid Laurier
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Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.
— Paul McCartney
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No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she…
— H. L. Mencken
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The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.
— Blaise Pascal
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We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens…
— Ayn Rand
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It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy…
— George Santayana
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A government that can at pleasure accuse, shoot, and hang men, as traitors, for the one general offence of refusing to surrender themselves and their…
— Lysander Spooner
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The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
— Stendhal
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