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Pleasing Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- We all live in the hope of pleasing somebody; and the pleasure of pleasing ought to be greatest, and always will be greatest, when our…
- The purpose of a writer is to be read, and the criticism which would destroy the power of pleasing must be blown aside
- Exercise cannot secure us from that dissolution to which we are decreed; but while the soul and body continue united, it can make the association…
- We ought not to raise expectations which it is not in our power to satisfy.-It is more pleasing to see smoke brightening into flame, than…
- The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.
- Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.
- Praise is so pleasing to the mind of man that it is the original of almost all of our actions
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- No man's prayer is acceptable with God whose life is not well pleasing before God. — Alexander Whyte