Praised Quotes
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If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
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One who is wise and disciplined, always kind and intelligent, humble and free from pride. One like this will be praised.
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What we do is never understood, but always merely praised or blamed.
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We are always anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.
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My mother praised me when I did something good, and then the next moment, she would say, 'Don't float.' She put me in a balloon and then pricked it.
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Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.
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In the highest antiquity, the people did not know that there were rulers. In the next age they loved them and praised them. In the next they feared them; in the next they despised them.
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Being generous and kindly in speech, doing a good turn for others, and treating all alike. One like this will be praised.
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In the Golden Age, Rulers were unknown. In the following age Rulers were loved and praised. Next came the age When rulers were feared. Finally the age When rulers are hated.
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Marcus Aurelius used people for the tasks they excelled at and praised them for it. Used to say it was impossible to make men as we would like them to be but was fitting to use them where they were useful.
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As the proverb says, "a good beginning is half the business" and "to have begun well" is praised by all.
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We are praised or blamed, as the one or the other may be expedient, for displaying to advantage our power of discernment.
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She raised the kids and took care of things while Dewey was gone. She had to be a wonderful woman to put up with her husband; he was gone constantly. She was independent and intelligent.
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For the good, when praised, feel something of disgust, if to excess commended.
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All is one, all is different. How many natures exist in man? How many vocations? And by what chance does each man ordinarily choose what he has heard praised?
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I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.
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The supreme rulers are hardly known by their subjects. The lesser are loved and praised. The even lesser are feared. The least are despised.
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It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare attainment.
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If both factions, or neither, shall abuse you, you will probably be about right. Beware of being assailed by one and praised by the other.
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He who has always spared himself much will in the end become sickly of so much consideration. Praised be what hardens!
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The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.
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Peace and quiet are preferred. Victory should not be praised.
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Humans are queer. A man, living and well, is ignored or criticized. Dying or dead, he is noticed and praised. Death sheds a temporary glamour over the poorest soul. It is as though in dying, he has accomplished something which life never gave him.
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Praise is the daughter of present power.
