Pleasing Quotes
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For who to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind?
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More Pleasing Quotes
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.
abbott eliot kittredge— P. 371. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
...in later times Mahomet opened a way for his religion by his sword, and advanced it by conquest. Now it is no wonder that a religion so pleasing to the lower appetites, that gives licence to all corrupt affections in the present life, and promises a sensual paradise suitable to beasts in the future, should be embraced by those who were subject to his arms.
— Reverend William Bates (1990). The Whole Works of the Rev. William Bates, Volume 1 (W. Farmer, Ed.)(pages 503–504). Harrisonburg, VA: Sprinkle Publications.
'With every pleasing, every prudent part, Say, what can Cloe want?'She wants a heart.
Alexander Pope— 1735 Epistles to Several Persons,'To a Lady', l.159-60.
Skiddaw shews its vast base, and bounding all that part of the vale, rises gently to a height that sinks the neighboring hills; opens a pleasing front, smooth and verdant, smiling over the country like a gentle generous lord, while the fells of Borrowdale frown on it like a hardened tyrant.
— Thomas Pennant A Tour in Scotland, and Voyage to the Hebrides (London: Benjamin White, [1774-6] 1790) p. 46
Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.
— 1778 Remark, 28 Apr. Quoted in James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.3.
A pleasing fit of melancholy.
john milton— 1634 Comus, A Mask, l.545.
Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.
john milton— 1671Samson Agonistes, l.1008.
With respect to excellence of Style and Composition, it may perhaps be said that to practised ears the most pleasing Music is such as has the merit of novelty, added to refinement, and ingenious contrivance; and to the ignorant, such as is most familiar and common.
charles burney— A General History of Music ([1776-89] 1935) vol. 1, page 22
To know the mighty works of God, to comprehend His wisdom and majesty and power; to appreciate, in degree, the wonderful workings of His laws, surely all this must be a pleasing and acceptable mode of worship to the Most High, to whom ignorance cannot be more grateful than knowledge.
nicolaus copernicus— As quoted in Poland : The Knight Among Nations (1907) by Louis E. Van Norman, p. 290; also in The Language of God (2006) by Francis Collins, pp. 230-31.
Everyone wants rather to be pleasing to women and that desire is not altogether, though it is very largely, a manifestation of vanity. But one cannot aim to be pleasing to women any more than one can aim to have taste, or beauty of expression, or happiness; for these things are not specific aims which one may learn to attain; they are descriptions of the adequacy of one's living. To try to be happy is to try to build a machine with no other specification than that it shall run noiselessly.
j. robert oppenheimer— Letter to his brother Frank (14 October 1929), published in Robert Oppenheimer : Letters and Recollections (1995) edited by Alice Kimball Smith, p. 136
The true test of all the arts, is not solely whether the production is a true copy of nature, but whether it answers the end of art, which is to produce a pleasing effect upon the mind.
joshua reynolds— Discourse no. 13; vol. 2, p. 136.
Love is a pleasing but a various clime.
william shenstone— Elegies, no. 5, st. 3.
And now, with gleams of half-extinguished thought, With many recognitions dim and faint, And somewhat of a sad perplexity, The picture of the mind revives again: While here I stand, not only with the sense Of present pleasure, but with pleasing thoughts That in this moment there is life and food For future years. And so I dare to hope, Though changed, no doubt, from what I was when first I came among these hills;
william wordsworth— Stanza 3. (Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey (1798))
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
walter scott— Walter Scott, Marmion, L'Envoy, To the Reader.
Wine makes a man more pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.
samuel johnson— April 28, 1778, p. 404.
Quotas are a perfectly logical, if diabolical, extension of the regulation of private property courtesy of the Civil Rights Act, whereby in an attempt to shape American society in politically pleasing ways, people have been coerced into liking, hiring or renting against their will or better judgment.
ilana mercer— “Liberty and the Civil Wrongs Act,” WorldNetDaily.com, April 2, 2010.
The Bible says that lust in your heart is committing adultery, so you can't masturbate without lust . You're gonna be pleasing each other, and if he already knows what pleases him, and he's gonna please himself, then why am I in the picture?
Christine O'Donnell— "IX: The Safest Sex of All", Sex in the 90s (MTV), 1996 Rayfield, Jill (14 September 2010), "Christine O'Donnell's 1996 Anti-Masturbation Campaign On MTV's 'Sex In The 90s' (VIDEO)", Talking Points Memo, retrieved on 2010-10-20 "Profile: Christine O'Donnell, Delaware Senate candidate", BBC, 20 September 2010, retrieved on 2010-10-20
Next o'er his books his eyes began to roll, In pleasing memory of all he stole; How here he sipp'd, how there he plunder'd snug, And suck'd all o'er like an industrious bug.
Alexander Pope— Alexander Pope, The Dunciad (1728 to 1743), Book I, line 127.
The most pleasing of all sounds that of your own praise.
Xenophon— Hiero, I. 14. Watson's translation.
'Tis silence all, And pleasing expectation.
james thomson— James Thomson, The Seasons, Spring (1728), line 160.
A bard here dwelt, more fat than bard becomes Who void of envy, guile and lust of gain, On virtue still and nature's pleasing themes Poured forth his unpremeditated strain.
james thomson— James Thomson, Castle of Indolence (1748), Canto I, Stanza 68. (Last line said to be "writ by a friend of the author.").
The devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1600-02), Act II, scene 2, line 628
The hutzpah of our love is pleasing to you, O Lord, just as it pleased you that we should steal from your bounty.
— Hymns on Faith 16:5
Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possest; The tear forgot as soon as shed, The sunshine of the breast.
thomas gray— Thomas Gray, Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College (1742), Stanza 5
Xenophon says that there is no sound more pleasing than one's own praises.
— Whether an Aged Man ought to meddle in State Affairs.
If to be venerated for benevolence, if to be admired for talents, if to be esteemed for patriotism, if to be loved for philanthropy, can gratify the human mind, you must have the pleasing consolation to know that you have not lived in vain.
— George Washington, in a letter to Benjamin Franklin (23 September 1789)
[Jesus laughs as he watches his disciples offering a prayer to God before Passover.] Disciples: Why are you laughing at us? Jesus says that he is laughing not at them but at their strange idea of pleasing their God.
— Jesus to his disciples. See "Jesus Laughed" and "Judas Saves: Why the lost gospel makes sense".
How happy the lover, how easy his chain, how pleasing his pain. How sweet to discover, he sighs not in vain.
john dryden— John Dryden, King Arthur, IV. 1. Song.
