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• O hasten, Lord, these promised days, When Israel shall rejoice, And Jew and Gentile join in praise, With one united voice!

  James Edmeston

  Israel, Voice, Lord

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• Praise, my soul, the King of Heaven; To his feet thy tribute bring. Ransomed, healed, restored, forgiven, Who like me his praise should sing?

  Henry Francis Lyte

  Kings, Feet, Heaven

  1834 'Praise, my Soul, the King of Heaven'.

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• It is better to be destroyed than to triumph in slaying the spirit... We die praising the universe in which at least such an achievement as ours can be.

  Olaf Stapledon

  Achievement, Triumph, Olaf

  Olaf Stapledon (1931). “Last and First Men, & Star Maker: Two Science-fiction Novels”, p.363, Courier Corporation

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• The creator, if he should love his creature, would be loving only a part of himself; but the creature, praising the creator, praises an infinity beyond himself.

  Olaf Stapledon

  Would Be, Infinity, Should

  Olaf Stapledon (2015). “Star Maker”, p.200, Sheba Blake Publishing

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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.

  Joseph C. Lincoln

  Stars, Patriotic, Yankees

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• Goal setting is the essence of life. Tenaciously pursue your goals not for external praise but for inner reward. It makes you a better person, parent, professional. It is important to be constantly growing.

  Bob Proctor

  Essence, Goal, Parent

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Dec 29, 2011

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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.

  Bernard Crick

  Men, Condescension And, Free Man

  Bernard Crick (1993). “In Defense of Politics”, p.140, University of Chicago Press

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• The personal deportment of Captain Perry, throughout the day, was worthy of all praise. He did not quit his own vessel when she became useless, to retire from the battle, but to gain it; an end that was fully obtained, and an effort which resulted in triumph.

  Oliver Hazard Perry

  Effort, Battle, Triumph

  "History of the Navy of the United States of America". Book by James Fenimore Cooper, 1856.

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• All those words of praise they use for novels - spare, economical. Why should I shell out £17 for economical?

  Howard Jacobson

  Use, Shells, Should

  Interview in the Daily Telegraph, April 2003.

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• The perfume of the flowers and of the bay tree are wafted on high, like incense. The birds sing sweet songs of praise to their Creator. In the tops of the trees, the soughing of the wind is like the hushed prayers of the multitude in some vast cathedral. Here the heart of man becomes impressionable.

  William Wendt

  Song, Sweet, Prayer

  John Alan Walker, William Wendt (1992). “Documents on the Life and Art of William Wendt, 1865-1946, California's Painter Laureate of the Paysage Moralisé”

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• I am doing what I want to do - painting pictures people want and understand. I have no burning ambition to create the kind of 'art' which the confused critics praise for its 'plastic significance,' 'fluid lines,' and 'inner awareness,' or 'must be understood on three levels.

  Arnold Friberg

  Art, Confused, Ambition

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• Never let too much criticism or too much praise get in your way.

  Leonard Wolf

  Criticism, Too Much, Way

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• Litmus test: If you can't describe Ricardo's Law of Comparative Advantage and explain why people find it counterintuitive, you don't know enough about economics to direct any criticism or praise at "capitalism" because you don't know what other people are referring to when they use that word.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Law, People, Criticism

  Comment as Eliezer Yudkowsky @yudkowsky, www.facebook.com. June 10, 2012.

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• It is time to celebrate the New Black Americans - those who have sealed the Deal, who aren't beholden to liberal indulgence any more than they are to the disdain of the hard Right. It is time to praise blacks who are merely undeniable in their individuality and exemplary in their levels of achievement .

  John Ridley

  Achievement, Black, Individuality

  "Fear of a Hip-Hop Planet: America's New Dilemma". Book by D. Marvin Jones, 2013.

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• Wherefore should I not offer my congratulations? But the very fact of them being Sayyids, those fountains of felicity, demands heartly exertions in support of Islam and their ancestor Muhammad the Lord of Apostles. Let two Kaftans of honor for the two brothers be issued from my wardrobe and let them be sent with two swords, jewel-hilted and provided with pearl mounted belts, let Jamdat-ul-Mulk write much praise and congratulations when sending these presents.

  Aurangzeb

  Brother, Congratulations, Writing

  "Later Mughals: Volume II: 1719-1739". Book by William Irvine, 1922.

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• Devotion does not mean only Chanting praise and singing glory of God, nor fasting and offerings made to God. Devotion is a specific attitude towards life and existence.

  Pandurang Shastri Athavale

  Attitude, Mean, Offering

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• Those who are truly wise will remain unmoved by feelings of happiness and suffering, fame and disgrace, praise and blame, gain and loss.They will remain calm like the eye of a hurricane.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wise, Wisdom, Eye

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• I am not one of those who left the land to the mercy of its enemies. Their flattery leaves me cold, my songs are not for them to praise.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Song, Land, Enemy

  Anna Andreevna Akhmatova, Stanley Kunitz, Max Hayward (1997). “Избранные Стихи”, p.75, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When Nietzsche praises egoism it is always in an aggressive or polemical way, against the virtues, against the virtue of disinterestedness (Z III "Of the three evil things"). But in fact egoism is a bad interpretation of the will, just as atomism is a bad interpretation of force. In order for there to be egoism it is necessary for there to be an ego.

  Gilles Deleuze

  Order, Evil, Ego

  Gilles Deleuze (2006). “Nietzsche and Philosophy”, p.7, A&C Black

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• On the whole, however, the critic is far less of a professional faultfinder than is sometimes imagined. He is first of all a virtue-finder, a singer of praise. He is not concerned with getting rid of dross except in so far as it hides the gold. In other words, the destructive side of criticism is purely a subsidiary affair. None of the best critics have been men of destructive minds. They are like gardeners whose business is more with the flowers than with the weeds.

  Robert Wilson Lynd

  Weed, Flower, Men

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• It is the custom when praising a Russian writer to do so at the expense of all other Russian writers.

  Robert Wilson Lynd

  Expenses, Customs

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• I do not care to listen; obloquy injures my self-esteem and I am skeptical of praise.

  Jack Vance

  Self Esteem, Care, Skeptical

  Jack Vance (2000). “Cugel the Clever: (previously titled The Eyes of the Overworld)”, p.141, Macmillan

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• So, in our wisdom and fair justice we go on - "Giving to dust that is a little gilt, More laud than gold e'er dusted;" proclaiming the merits of the bad wine, and making it, by every token, as enticing as we can; and blessing our stars that the good will be found out by its flavor "without our stir." As it is inestimable, we seek not to win esteem for it; as it is beyond all praise, we bestow no praises upon it.

  Samuel Laman Blanchard

  Stars, Wine, Blessing

  "Sketches from Life, Vol. 1-2". Book by Laman Blanchard, Wiley & Putnam, "That Good Wine Needs No Bush", 1846.

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• The ancient gentleman who has seen the world, who is profoundly experienced, and much too deep to be the dupe of an age so shallow as this, is to be won by an admiring glance at the brilliancy of his knee-buckle; praise his very pigtail, and you may lead him by it.

  Samuel Laman Blanchard

  Gentleman, Age, World

  "Sketches from Life" by Laman Blanchard. "That Old Birds are not to be Caught with Chaff", 1846.

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• I could start this review by stating that Dumb and Dumberer lives up to its name, or by calling it stupid, moronic, and idiotic, but I believe that approach is a trap, since a movie like this might relish being the object of such bland invectives. Instead, let me try a few that can't possibly be misconstrued as twisted praise: unfunny, boring, torturous, and unwatchable. ... [N]o movie could be more aptly compared to raw sewage than this film - Directed By Troy Miller.

  James Berardinelli

  Stupid, Believe, Names

  "Dumb and Dumberer (United States, 2003)". A movie review, www.reelviews.net. 2003.

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