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• Shall I, to please another wine-sprung minde, Lose all mine own? God hath giv'n me a measure Short of His can and body; must I find A pain in that, wherein he finds a pleasure?

  George Herbert

  Pain, Wine, Body

  George Herbert (1809). “Herbert's Poems: with his Country Parson. A new edition to which is prefixed, the life of the author; from I. Walton”, p.78

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• Twere better to be born a stone Of ruder shape, and feeling none, Than with a tenderness like mine And sensibilities so fine! Ah, hapless wretch! condemn'd to dwell Forever in my native shell, Ordained to move when others please, Not for my own content or ease; But toss'd and buffeted about, Now in the water and now out.

  William Cowper

  Moving, Oysters, Water

  William Cowper, William Hayley, John William Cunningham (1854). “The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems ; Now First Completed by the Introduction of Cowper's Private Correspondence”, p.617

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• A long, exact, and serious comedy; In every scene some moral let it teach, And, if it can, at once both please and preach.

  Alexander Pope

  Long, Acting, Serious

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1831). “Poetical Works”, p.162

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• They please, are pleas'd, they give to get esteem Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Ambition, Giving, Grows

  Oliver Goldsmith, Samuel Rose, Thomas Percy, Thomas Campbell (1821). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B..”, p.38

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• O Athenians, what toil do I undergo to please you!

  Alexander the Great

  Toil, Pleasure, Athenians

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations V2: Drawn From The Speech And Literature Of All Nations, Ancient And Modern (1922)". Book by Kate Louise Roberts, 2010.

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• Nothing can permanently please, which doesn't contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Satisfaction, Reason Why, Reason

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• If you don't like how something is going for you, change it. If something isn't enough, change it. If something doesn't suit you, change it. If something doesn't please you, change it. You don't ever have to be the same after today. If you don't like your present address change it - you're not a tree!

  Jim Rohn

  Change, Suits You, Tree

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• It is a big mistake to think that the best way to express yourself is to do whatever you want, acting as you please. This is not expressing yourself. If you know what to do exactly, and you do it, then you can express yourself fully.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Mistake, Thinking, Expression

  "Not Always So: Practicing the True Spirit of Zen". Book by Shunryū Suzuki. Chapter: "Express Yourself Fully", p. 8, 2002.

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• Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs; Since life's best joys consist in peace and ease, And though but few can serve, yet all may please; On, let th' ungentle spirit learn from hence, A small unkindness is a great offence.

  Hannah More

  Spring, Joy, Ease

  Hannah More (1835). “The works of Hannah More”, p.380

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• No one but myself knows the anxiety I go through and the trouble I give myself to finish paintings which do not satisfy me and seem to please so very few others.

  Claude Monet

  Giving, Anxiety, Painting

  David Joel, Claude Monet (2002). “Monet at Vétheuil and on the Norman Coast, 1878-1883”, Antique Collectors Club Limited

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• I've spent so long on some paintings that I no longer know what to think of them, and I am definitely getting harder to please; nothing satisfies me.

  Claude Monet

  Frustration, Thinking, Long

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

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• If my wife is cooking a meal at home, which is not often, thankfully, but you know, she's doing (oh, she's good at some things) but if she's cooking, you know, she's dealing with people on the phone, she's talking to the kids, she's painting the ceiling, she's doing open-heart surgery over here; if I'm cooking, the door is shut, the kids are out, the phone's on the hook, if she comes in I get annoyed, I say "Terry, please, I'm trying to fry an egg in here, give me a break.".

  Ken Robinson

  Heart, Kids, Home

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• As paradoxical as it may seem a great sculptor is as much a colourist as the best painter, or rather the best engraver. He plays so skillfully with all the resources of relief, he blends so well the boldness of light with the modesty of shadow, that his sculptures please one, as much as the most charming etchings.

  Auguste Rodin

  Light, Play, Shadow

  Auguste Rodin (2012). “Rodin on Art and Artists”, p.22, Courier Corporation

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• Whoever can do as he pleases, commands when he entreats.

  Pierre Corneille

  Power, Command, Can Do

  "Sertorius". Book by Pierre Corneille, 1662.

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• Whoever the kid had been, whoever had had the grand attitude, has finally heeded the admonishment of parents, teachers, governments, religions, and the law: )You just change your attitude now please, young man.

  William Saroyan

  Teacher, Attitude, Kids

  William Saroyan (1968). “I used to believe I had forever, now I'm not so sure”

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• Paint with whatever material you please - with pipes, postage stamps, postcards or playing cards, painted paper, or newspapers.

  Guillaume Apollinaire

  Cards, Paper, Paint

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• PERFORM all acts with as much love as you would offer God. In Truth, you eat for the satisfaction of the I in you and dress up to please the self-same I . The husband loves his wife for the sake of the I . And who is this I that is persistently inherent in everyone? It is God Himself.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Husband, Self, Wife

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• Life is best spent in alleviating pain, assuaging distress, and promoting peace and joy. The service of man is more valuable than what you call “service to God.” God has no need of your service. Pleas man, you please God.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Pain, Men, Joy

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• I hope always to earn my living by my art without having ever deviated by even a hair's breadth from my principles... to please anyone or to sell more easily.

  Gustave Courbet

  Art, Hair, Principles

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• What has pleased and continues to please, is likely to please again; hence are derived the rules of art, and on this immovable foundation they must ever stand.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Art, Foundation, Pleasure

  Sir Joshua Reynolds (1906). “A Selection from the Discourses Delivered to the Students of the Royal Academy”

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• Often extraordinary excellence, not being rightly conceived, does rather offend than please.

  Philip Sidney

  Excellence, Doe, Extraordinary

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.25

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• As I sat at the Cafe I said to myself, They may talk as they please about what they call pelf, They may sneer as they like about eating and drinking, But help it I cannot, I cannot help thinking How pleasant it is to have money, heigh-ho! How pleasant it is to have money!

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Money, Drinking, Thinking

  Arthur Hugh Clough, Francis Turner Palgrave (1862). “Poems”, p.45

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• Music - so different from painting - is the art which we enjoy most in company with others. A symphony, presented in a room with one other listener, would please him but little.

  Robert Schumann

  Art, Symphony, Different

  Robert Schumann (1983). “On Music and Musicians”, p.45, Univ of California Press

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• My father was extremely loving to me and funny and wise and understanding, and at other times extremely demanding, critical, calculating, exacting. When you're a young woman, I think you want to please a lot, so maybe you accept more of the criticism than you would as an older person. But criticism can be very wounding. It certainly was to me.

  Anjelica Huston

  Wise, Father, Thinking

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• American films are less American every day, because you have to please a world audience. There's less authenticity, so it's more accessible.

  Ang Lee

  World, Film, Authenticity

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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