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• Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.

  John Keats

  Men, Criticism, Blame

  John Keats (2015). “John Keats - The Man Behind The Lyrics: Life, letters, and literary remains: Complete Letters and Two Extensive Biographies of one of the most beloved English Romantic poets”, p.225, e-artnow

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• The Local Paper here asked that me books be banned........THE HIGHEST PRAISE for an Irish writer.

  Ken Bruen

  Book, Paper, Banned

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• Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud. Any of us will put out more and better ideas if our efforts are appreciated.

  Alex Faickney Osborn

  Appreciation, Art, Flower

  Alex Faickney Osborn (1953). “Applied imagination: principles and procedures of creative thinking”

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• As long as you represent me as praising alcohol I shall not complain. It is, I believe, the greatest of human inventions, and by far - much greater than Hell, the radio or the bichloride tablet.

  H. L. Mencken

  Believe, Food, Long

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• An egotist will always speak of himself, either in praise or in censure, but a modest man ever shuns making himself the subject of his conversation.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, Speak, Conversation

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• These are the signs of a wise man: to reprove nobody, to praise nobody, to blame nobody, nor even to speak of himself or his own merits.

  Epictetus

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

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• We praise times past, while we times present use;
  Yet due the worship which to each we give.

  Ovid

  Past, Giving, Use

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• We blossom under praise like flowers in sun and dew; we open, we reach, we grow.

  Gerhard E Frost

  Flower, Dew, Sun

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• If we just had more revelation of what we already have, there would be far less prayers and far more praise.

  Watchman Nee

  Prayer, Would Be, Revelations

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• Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Love, Appreciation, Rewards And Recognition

  Cynic's Word Book (1906) p. 13

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• Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Humility, Bait, Modesty

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.341

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• We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Book, Writing, Men

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• What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!

  William James

  Men, Rewards And Recognition, Facts

  William James (2008). “The Letters of William James”, Cosimo, Inc.

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• So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

  Bertrand Russell

  Death, Atheist, Religion

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “Education and the Social Order”, p.73, Routledge

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• So once in every year we throng Upon a day apart, to praise the Lord with feast and song in thankfulness of heart.

  Arthur Guiterman

  Thanksgiving, Song, Heart

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• The fact is that certain themes cannot be celebrated in words, and tyranny is one of them. No one ever wrote a good book in praise of the Inquisition.

  George Orwell

  Book, Facts, Certain

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.265, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If you can show me how I can cling to that which is real to me, while teaching me a way into the larger society, then and only then will I drop my defenses and hostility, and I will sing your praises and help you to make the desert bear fruit.

  Ralph Ellison

  Real, Teaching, Singing

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• I don’t believe that a reviewer or a critic can really criticize well unless he can praise well.

  James Dickey

  Believe, Criticize, Critics

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• So if I were talking to a young writer, I would recommend the cultivation of extreme indifference to both praise and blame because praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers.

  John Berryman

  Vanity, Self, Talking

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• Begin with praise and honest appreciation.

  Dale Carnegie

  Appreciation, Honest, Win Friends And Influence People

  Dale Carnegie (2010). “How To Win Friends and Influence People”, p.236, Simon and Schuster

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• Praise is like sunlight to the warm human spirit; we cannot flower and grow without it. And yet, while most of us are only too ready to apply to others the cold wind of criticism, we are somehow reluctant to give our fellow the warm sunshine of praise.

  Dale Carnegie

  Flower, Sunshine, Wind

  Dale Carnegie (1982). “How To Win Friends And Influence People”, p.227, Simon and Schuster

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• If you take care of yourself and walk with integrity, you may be confident that God will deal with those who sin against you. Above all, don't give birth to sin yourself, rather, pray for those who persecute you. God will one day turn your persecution into praise.

  Warren W. Wiersbe

  Forgiveness, God, Christian

  Warren W. Wiersbe (2011). “Prayer, Praise & Promises: A Daily Walk Through the Psalms”, p.22, Baker Books

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• In a sense, we are better prepared to praise God than the angels are, for angels have never known the joy of redemption.

  David Jeremiah

  Christian, Angel, Joy

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• Ardent, intelligent, sweet, sensitive, cultivated, erudite. These are the adjectives of praise in an androgynous world. Those who consider them epithets of shame or folly ought not to be trusted with leadership, for they will be men hot for power and revenge, certain of right and wrong.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Leadership, Sweet, Revenge

  Carolyn G. Heilbrun (1974). “Toward a recognition of androgyny”, HarperCollins Publishers

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