"Poets wish to profit or to please." — Horace

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• O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all… — Teresa of Avila
• Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to… — 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… — 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… — Glenn Beck
• PLease, do not visualize that we exist above you such as in heaven. The concepts above and below are products… — Hans Bender
• I think the journey for a politician goes from wanting to please all the people all the time, to a… — Tony Blair
• Please all, and you will please none. — Aesop
• Listen to what others tell you about your voice. If you're only singing to please yourself, you might as well… — Andrea Bocelli
• That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right,… — William J. H. Boetcker
• I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because… — Jorge Luis Borges

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