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«It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us»
Author: Isaac Disraeli | Keywords: excellent, gratified, gratifies, taste, wretched
«Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.»
Author: Joseph Addison (Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman) | Keywords: agreeable, curiosity, fills, gratifies, it An, possessed, raises, surprise, uncommon
«Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Achievement, Life, Pleasure, Success, Wishes | Keywords: affords, difficulties, forming, gratified, gratifies, one-step, passing, seeing, surmount, surmounted, surmounting, wishes
«We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Expectation | Keywords: disappointed, expectation, expecting, gratified, gratifies
«If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or ''our'' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits which I have not shared and probably will not share.»
Author: Virginia Woolf (Writer) | Keywords: benefits, gratifies, gratify, insist, instinct, Let It Be, procure, procured, procures, procuring, protect, rationally, shared, soberly
«PROPERTY, n. Any material thing, having no particular value, that may be held by A against the cupidity of B. Whatever gratifies the passion for possession in one and disappoints it in all others. The object of man's brief rapacity and long indifference.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer) | Keywords: brief, cupidity, disappoints, gratifies, held, indifference, material, particular, possession, property, rapacity, The Object of, The Passion
«Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | Keywords: always, astonish, by rights, Do, gratifies, gratify, people, rest, right, righted, righting, right a, some, this, will
«Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | Keywords: astonish, Do, Do the Right Thing, gratifies, gratify, people, rest, right, Right Thing, some, thing, will
«True felicity lies only in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.»
Author: Marquis De Sade (Novelist) | Keywords: felicities, felicity, gratifies, senses
«There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.»
Author: Thomas Fuller (Clergyman, Writer) | Keywords: gratifies
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