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• We bestow on others praise in which we do not believe, on condition that in return they bestow upon us praise in which we do.

  Jean Rostand

  Believe, Return, Conditions

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• A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul.

  Russell Baker

  Men, Soul, Earth

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• Today's Parenting Tip: Treat a difficult child the way you would your boss at work. Praise his achievements, ignore his tantrums and resist the urge to sit him down and explain to him how his brain is not yet fully developed.

  Robert Breault

  Children, Achievement, Boss

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• ...I will praise the English climate till I die—even if I die of the English climate. There is no weather so good as English weather. Nay, in a real sense there is no weather at all anywhere but in England. In France you have much sun and some rain; in Italy you have hot winds and cold winds; in Scotland and Ireland you have rain, either thick or thin; in America you have hells of heat and cold, and in the Tropics you have sunstrokes varied by thunderbolts. But all these you have on a broad and brutal scale, and you settle down into contentment or despair.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Real, Rain, America

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• It is great to get praise from the lips of taciturnity.

  John Addington Symonds

  Lips

  John Addington Symonds (1968). “The Letters of John Addington Symonds: 1869-1884”

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• The one who knows himself isn't deceived by either praise or criticism.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Criticism, Deceived, Knows

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• He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another.

  Seneca the Younger

  Family, Deeds, Ancestry

  "The Madness of Hercules". Book by Seneca the Younger, circa 54 AD.

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• It's the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.

  Seneca the Younger

  Admirer, Provoking, Commit

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• No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise.

  Martial

  Hero, Winning, Men

  Martial (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Martial (Illustrated)”, p.8, Delphi Classics

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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.

  Jonathan Swift

  Sarcasm, Men, Vices

  Jonathan Swift (1861). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Cop'ous Notes and Additions”, p.612

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• All panegyrics are mingled with an infusion of poppy.

  Jonathan Swift

  Poppies, Infusion

  Jonathan Swift, David Laing Purves (1871). “The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: Carefully Selected; with a Biography of the Author”, p.520

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• In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach.

  William Ralph Inge

  Philosophy, Men, Doe

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• How strange it is that we of the present day are constantly praising that past age which our fathers abused, and as constantly abusing that present age, which our children will praise.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Children, Father, Past

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

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• All poets pretend to write for immortality, but the whole tribe have no objection to present pay and present praise.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Writing, Pay, Tribes

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.25

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• Every potter praises his own pot.

  Henry George Bohn

  Potters, Pot

  Henry George Bohn (1867). “A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs: Comprising French, Italian, German, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, and Danish, with English Translations and a General Index”, p.443, London : Bell & Daldy York street covent garden

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• I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.

  Samuel Johnson

  Miscarriage, Sound, Apathy

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 1, p. 297 (1755)

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• The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants.

  Samuel Johnson

  Virtue, Servant, Highest

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.119

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• All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to show how much he can spare.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Self, Order

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 25 Apr. 1778)

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• Fear not the anger of the wise to raise; Those best can bear reproof who merit praise.

  Alexander Pope

  Wise, Bears, Merit

  Alexander Pope (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe”, p.369

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• I would not unduly praise the virtue of restraint. It is often merely temperamental. But it is not always a sign of coldness. It may be pride. There can be nothing more humiliating than to see the shaft of one's emotion miss the mark of either laughter or tears. Nothing more humiliating! And this for the reason that should the mark be missed, should the open display of emotion fail to move, then it must perish unavoidably in disgust or contempt.

  Joseph Conrad

  Laughter, Moving, Pride

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “Joseph Conrad’s Sea Tales - Premium Collection: An Outcast of the Islands, The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’, A Smile of Fortune, Typhoon and more: Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)”, p.1116, e-artnow

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• He who first praises a book becomingly is next in merit to the author.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Book, Criticism, Next

  Walter Savage Landor (1824). “Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen”

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• The deafest man can hear praise, and is slow to think any an excess.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Men, Thinking, Excess

  Walter Savage Landor, Charles George Crump (1909). “Imaginary Conversations: Dialogues of literary men. Dialogues of famous women. Miscellaneous dialogues”

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• We cannot at once catch the applauses of the vulgar and expect the approbation of the wise.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Wise, Applause, Vulgar

  Walter Savage Landor, Charles George Crump (1909). “Imaginary Conversations: Classical dialogues (Roman) Dialogues of sovereigns and statesmen”

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• There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick.

  Sophocles

  Men, Sick, Disease

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• What does the divine sufferer (Jesus) demand from us? Only our faith, our love, our grateful praise, our consecrated hearts and lives. Is that too much to ask?

  Billy Graham

  Jesus, Grateful, Heart

  Billy Graham (2010). “Unto the Hills: A Daily Devotional”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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