Praise Quotes
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When people praise you, don't let it go to your head. When they criticize you, don't let it go to your heart.
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Silence and chaste reserve is woman's genuine praise, and to remain quiet within the house.
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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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Politics deserves much praise. Politics is a preoccupation of free men, and its existence is a test of freedom. The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension.
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The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension.
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Lord # God , I praise Your Holy Name. Let every beat of my heart be a note of love in the symphony of my life.
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Do not praise an undeserving man because of his riches.
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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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God can say to His believers, 'I am divine and human,' and His believers can reply, 'Praise You, Lord. You are divine and human, and we are human and divine.'
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The sage knows himself, but does not parade. He cherishes himself, but does not praise himself.
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Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough; and we receive it as a favor; but when it comes in great quantities, we regard it only as a debt, which nothing but our merit could extort.
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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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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 are but little children weak Nor born in any high estate. . . . . There's not a child so small and weak But has his little cross to take, His little work of love and praise That he may do for Jesus' sake.
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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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Praise is so powerful that it opens the eyes of people who don't want to see.
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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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You tend to feel very hurt when people attack you and feel indifferent when you get praise. You think, 'Of course they like it. They should like it.'
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For as long as they praise you, never forget that it is not yet your own path that you walk, but another person's.
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Flattery is praise without foundation.
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New England clam chowder, made as it should be, is a dish to preach about, to chant praises and sing hymns and burn incense before. ... It is as American as the Stars and Stripes, as patriotic as the national Anthem. It is Yankee Doodle in a kettle.
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It is usually in better taste to praise an isolated action or a production of genius, than a man's character as a whole.
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Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear
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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.
