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Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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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. ↗

— William J. H. Boetcker

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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. ↗

— George Whitefield

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In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us. ↗

— Brigham Young

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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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God is displeased at the diffidence of souls who love Him sincerely and whom He Himself loves. ↗

— Alphonsus Liguori

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If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master. ↗

— Michelangelo

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