It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds...
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Unknown
Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing.
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Criss Jami
I cannot encourage any fabrication even for the sake of making people feel good. If I were to fabricate consciously and knowingly, I would not only be ordaining myself their enemy, but also ordaining myself God's enemy.
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Criss Jami
An acquaintance merely enjoys your company, a fair-weather companion flatters when all is well, a true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.
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E.a. Bucchianeri
Flattery does not encourage the perfect flow of love in the vein of your relationship. Be genuine and speak out what you feel for each other without hiding the painful truth.
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Michael Bassey Johnson
More Quotes By John Masefield
The distant soul can shake the distant friend's soul and make the longing felt, over untold miles.
Only the road and the dawn, the sun, the wind, and the rain, And the watch fire under stars, and sleep, and the road again.
I have seen flowers come in stony places And kind things done by men with ugly faces, And the gold cup won by the worst horse at the races, So I trust, too.
I must go down to the sea again, for the call of the running tide, is a wild call and a clear call, that cannot be denied!
(...) It, s hard not to be able. There, look there! / I cannot get the movement nor the light;/ Sometimes it almost makes a man despair/ To try and try and never get it right./ Oh, if I could -oh, if I only might,...
