Praise Quotes
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Let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.
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After eating, an epicure gives a thin smile of satisfaction; a gastronome, burping into his napkin, praises the food in a magazine; a gourmet, repressing his burp, criticizes the food in the same magazine; a gourmand belches happily and tells everybody where he ate; a glutton empraces the white porcelain alter, or more plainly, he barfs.
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It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
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Praise the child, and you make love to the mother.
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Make it a habit to praise the horse when the horse yields.
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But what will happen even if we do burn down the Jews synagogues and forbid them publicly to praise God, to pray, to teach, to utter God's name? They will still keep doing it in secret. If we know that they are doing this in secret, it is the same as if they were doing it publicly. for our knowledge of their secret doings and our toleration of them implies that they are not secret after all and thus our conscience is encumbered with it before God.
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Of Dickens' style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules... No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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Our days of praise shall ne'er be past While life, and thought, and being last, And immortality endures.
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A mother-in-law's praise says more in a woman's favor than anything else in the world.
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Do everything with a mind that lets go. Do not expect praise or reward.
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She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love.
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It is wonderful to have someone praise you, to be desired.
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I suffer for my art and despise the witless moneyed scoundrels who praise it.
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Praise leads to weakness. Getting it causes fear, losing it causes fear.
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Attach yourself to those who advise you rather than praise you.
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Praise is good. Some people over-praise, though. Genuine appreciation is rare to come by.
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No breeder is above catering to intelligent praise of his dog.
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What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant?
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The most truly generous persons are those who give silently without hope of praise or reward.
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I believe that it is possible for one to praise, without concern, any man after he is dead since every reason and supervision for adulation is lacking.
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It is true that I receive a lot of praise and that is flattering. But I try not to let it affect me.
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Praise doesn't mean anything to me. I don't judge myself.
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When I conducted a beer-rating session last year, I wrote that most American beers taste as if they were brewed through a horse. That offended many people in the American beer industry, as well as patriots who thought I was being subversive in praising foreign beers. I have just read a little-known study of American beers. So I must apologize to the horse. At least with a horse, we'd know what we're getting.
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The most enviable praise of all is just to be called an honest man.
