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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.
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A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.
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Always try to do something for the other fellow and you will be agreeably surprised how things come your way - how many pleasing things are done for you.
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By knowing each man's ruling passion, we are sure of pleasing him; and yet each has his fancies, opposed to his true good, in the very idea which he has of the good.
Pensees (1669) -
Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it we must direct our lives in such a way as to please the fancy of men, avoiding what they dislike and seeking what is pleasing to them.
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If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be - not understood, but divined.
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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.
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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.
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Never speak of yourself to others; make them talk about themselves instead; therein lies the whole art of pleasing. Everybody knows it, and everyone forgets it.
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Praise from an enemy is the most pleasing of all commendations.
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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
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The devil has the power to assume a pleasing shape.
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The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered but a general effect of pleasing impression.
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The hours that we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with success.
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The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.
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The spiritual message is we lose our lives in pleasing others; if you're the good child who pleases Mommy and Daddy but internalizes anger, you're setting yourself up for disease.
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There are few things more pleasing than the contemplation of order and useful arrangement.
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This bread and wine are the simple but eloquent monument to the infinite love of the Son of God, around which we gather with tender, tearful gratitude, because He loved us'so, and because we know that our garlands of affection and consecration are pleasing to Him.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
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