Praise Quotes
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The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.
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Your art is to be the praise of something that you love. It may only be the praise of a shell or a stone.
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Be kind, be decent, be generous, be tolerant, compassionate, and understanding. Be fast to praise, slow to judge. Remember, we're all human, and don't cast the first stone.
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With faint praises one another damn.
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Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove.
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The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped; therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.
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I do not speak of what I cannot praise.
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To the Greeks, the supreme function of music was to "praise the gods and educate the youth". In Egypt... Initiatory music was heard only in Temple rites because it carried the vibratory rhythms of other worlds and of a life beyond the mortal.
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I praise loudly. I blame softly.
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Many folk like to know beforehand what is to be set on the table; but those who have laboured to prepare the feast like to keep their secret; for wonder makes the words of praise louder.
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Silence and chaste reserve is woman's genuine praise, and to remain quiet within the house.
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Praise is so powerful that it opens the eyes of people who don't want to see.
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The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.
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Friends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you; but, though they may ask it, you never find them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own.
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We say of the oak, How grand of girth! Of the willow we say, How slender! And yet to the soft grass clothing the earth How slight is the praise we render.
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Praise Allah, for by praise His blessings multiply.
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I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!
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I always try to remember that praise and a slap on your back is only 6 inches away from a kick up the arse!
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The humblest praise most, while cranks & malcontents praise least. Praise almost seems to be inner health made audible
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Let me thus praise You in the way You love best: by shining on those around me. Let me preach You without preaching, not by words, but by my example, by the catching force, the sympathetic influence of what I do, the evident fullness of the love my heart bears to You. Amen.
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If thy debtor be honest and capable, thou hast thy money again, if not with increase, with praise; if he prove insolvent, don't ruin him to get that which it will not ruin thee to lose, for thou art but a steward.
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We ought to make the moments notes Of happy glad Thanksgiving; The hours and days, a silent praise Of music we are living.
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My opinion is that the best thing would be to work on till art lovers feel drawn toward it of their own accord, instead of having to praise or to explain it.
