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Letter "P" » pleasing
«Many men are melancholy by hearing music, but it is a pleasing melancholy that it causeth; and therefore to such as are discontent, in woe, fear, sorrow, or dejected, it is a most present remedy»
Author: Robert Burton
(Clergyman, Writer)
| About:
Melancholy,
Music
| Keywords:
dejected, discontent, hearing, pleasing, remedy, woe
«It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance»
«It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.»
«It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?»
Author: Jane Austen
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
attentions, delicacies, delicacy, flattering, impulse, pleasing, previous, proceed
«I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.»
«It is pleasing to God whenever thou rejoices or laughest from the bottom of thy heart»
Author: Martin Luther
(Priest, Scholar)
| About:
God
| Keywords:
bottom, pleasing, rejoices, The Bottom, thou, THY
«I wish Christianity were more productive of good works ... I mean real good works ... not holy-day keeping, sermon-hearing ... or making long prayers, filled with flatteries and compliments despised by wise men, and much less capable of pleasing the»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
compliments, despised, flatteries, holy day, pleasing, productive, sermon, Wise Men
«My first wish is to see this plague of mankind banished from the earth, and the sons and daughters of this world employed in more pleasing and innocent amusements, than in preparing implements and exercising them for the destruction of mankind»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
amusements, banished, daughters, employed, exercising, implemented, implementing, implements, my first, plague, pleasing, preparing, Sons and Daughters
«I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Compliments,
Men and Women
| Keywords:
complimented, compliments, enormously, heap, heaped, heaping, heap up, her, mean, pleasing, says, see, Seeing Things, should, The Whole Man, whole, why, woman
«If you would be interesting, be interested, if you would be pleased, be pleasing, if you would be loved, be lovable, if you would be helped, be helpful.»
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