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«It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher»
Author: George Whitefield
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«That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.»
«If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.»
«Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desire to attain to what thou art not; for where thou hast pleased thyself, there thou abidest.»
«And God was displeased with this thing; therefore he smote Israel.»
«Such is the nature of novelty that where anything pleases it becomes doubly agreeable if new; but if it displeases, it is doubly displeasing on that very account»
Author: David Hume
(Economist, Essayist, Historian, Philosopher)
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«There is something in the misfortune of our best friends which does not displease us.»
«The good generally displeases us when it is beyond our ken.»
«Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.»
Author: Jonathan Swift
(Author, Satirist)
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«Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.»
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