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• Go out of the house to see the moon, and 't is mere tinsel; it will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey. The beauty that shimmers in the yellow afternoons of October, who could ever clutch it? Go forth to find it, and it is gone: 't is only a mirage as you look from the windows of diligence.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Knowledge, Moon

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.38, Penguin

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• It never was in the power of any man or any community to call the arts into being. They come to serve his actual wants, never to please his fancy.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Creativity, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2417, Delphi Classics

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• People often imagine that being hard to please confers a certain superiority.

  Mason Cooley

  People, Imagine, Certain

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• Eagerness to please attracts bullies and bores.

  Mason Cooley

  Bullying, Boredom, Bores

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• Dear God, Please untie the nots. All of the can nots, should nots, may nots and have nots. Please erase from my mind the thoughts that I am not good enough.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Not Good Enough, Mind, May

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Dec 28, 2015

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• When you take the elevator to the top, please remember to send it back down so someone else might use it.

  Dikembe Mutombo

  Might Use, Remember, Elevators

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• It's always been you know, religion that has been the primary impediment to actual relationship with God, because it creates a mythology about performance -- that you can perform your way into the appeasement of the deity. And you know, when you're born inside the cultural framework that I was, and you're born inside the religious traditions that I was, that becomes your understanding of spirituality: That it's about trying to please God. So, it's really not about God at all; it's about our ability to perform according to whatever the expectations are.

  William P. Young

  Religious, Expectations, Understanding

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• Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Flattery, Acceptable, Ifs

  Marguerite Countess of Blessington, Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1839). “Desultory Thoughts and Reflections”, p.95

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• If thou marry beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which, perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year.

  Walter Raleigh

  Beauty, Years, Lasts

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• Confidence always pleases those who receive it. It is a tribute we pay to their merit, a deposit we commit to their trust, a pledge that gives them a claim upon us, a kind of dependence to which we voluntarily submit.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Confidence, Giving, Merit

  "Reflections on Various Subjects". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld, www.gutenberg.org. 1678.

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• A man does not please long when he has only species of wit.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Long, Doe

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• Man is a social animal formed to please in society.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Animal, Men, Society

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• Talk often, but never long; in that case, if you do not please, at least you are sure not to tire your hearers. Pay your own reckoning, but do not treat the whole company; this being one of the few cases in which people do not care to be treated, every one being fully convinced that he has wherewithal to pay.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Talking, Long, People

  Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.101, Oxford Paperbacks

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• It is to be presumed, that a man of common sense, who does not desire to please, desires nothing at all; since he must know that he cannot obtain anything without it.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Men, Common Sense, Desire

  Lord Chesterfield (2008). “The Modern Chesterfield”, p.250, Wildside Press LLC

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• Treason pleases, but not the traitor.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Traitor, Treason

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• My wealth is health and perfect ease; My conscience clear my chief defence; I neither seek by bribes to please, Nor by deceit to breed offence. Thus do I live; thus will I die. Would all did so well as I!

  Edward Dyer

  Perfect, Deceit, Ease

  1588 'In Praise of a Contented Mind'.

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• Fortune does us neither good nor hurt; she only presents us the matter, and the seed, which our soul, more powerfully than she, turns and applies as she best pleases; being the sole cause and sovereign mistress of her own happy or unhappy condition.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Hurt, Soul, Mistress

  Michel de Montaigne, William Hazlitt (1860). “The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy”, p.145

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• Repentance is no other than a recanting of the will, and opposition to our fancies, which lead us which way they please.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Fancy, Way, Repentance

  Michel de Montaigne, Bayle St. John (1866). “Essays [tr. by Cotton”, p.68

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• My dream's simple..and does whatever it pleases. I'm just moving in the direction of Seung Jo who's at the center of it.

  Hani

  Dream, Drama, Moving

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• Now, practically all reviewers have academic aspirations. The people from the universities are used to a captive audience, but the literary journalist has to please his audience.

  V. S. Pritchett

  People, Academic, Used

  "V. S. Pritchett" by Paul Theroux, archive.nytimes.com. May 22, 1977.

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• We can love with all our hearts those in whom we recognize great faults. It would be impertinent to believe that perfection alone has the right to please us; sometimes our weaknesses attach us to each other as much as our virtues.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Believe, Heart, Perfection

  Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

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• Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcasm, Piano Music

  Impressions of America (1906). The Newark (Ohio) Daily Advocate, 20 Apr. 1883, describes an afterdinner speech made by Wilde in Paris about his experiences in the United States: "The brightest and best of the many stories he related was one to the effect that at a ball in Leadville he saw a notice over the piano which read: 'Please don't shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.' "

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• Turn your eyes whither you will, enter into whatever temple you please, you will find there on the very threshold Prophecy and Sacrament .... whoever despises these two things, infallibly bends towards earth, knowing nothing of God but his name, and holding with him no other relations than ingratitude and forgetfulness.

  Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

  Eye, Knowing Nothing, Names

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• By the blessings of heaven I mean to live and die, please God, in the faith of my mother.

  William McKinley

  Mother, Mean, Blessing

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• I must have liberty
  Withal, as large a charter as the wind,
  To blow on whom I please, for so fools have.

  William Shakespeare

  Blow, Wind, Liberty

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 7, l. 47

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