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• My mother wanted me to go to church to meet women. That's wrong, ain't it? 'Praise the Lord! Hey, how ya doing? Nice dress. Look, I'm going to go over there and get some of this wine and crackers, want some?'

  Warren Hutcherson

  Mother, Nice, Wine

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• Even if God never did another good thing in our lives, we could spend the rest of this life praising Him for what He has already done.

  Dillon Burroughs

  Done, Good Things, This Life

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• Should the fragrance of Thy praise be shed abroad by any of the divers tongues of the world, out of the East or out of the West, it would, verily, be prized and greatly cherished.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  East, World, Tongue

  Bahá'u'lláh (0101). “Prayers and Meditations”, p.160, Prabhat Prakashan

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• If unconditional love and genuine enthusiasm are present, praise isn't necessary. If they're absent, praise won't help.

  Alfie Kohn

  Unconditional Love, Enthusiasm, Helping

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• The superior man does not mind being in office; all he minds about is whether he has qualities that entitle him to office. He does not mind failing to get recognition; he is too busy doing the things that entitle him to recognition.

  Confucius

  Men, Office, Mind

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• The true poet is called to take in the splendor of the world and for that reason will always be inclined to praise rather than tofind fault.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Poetry, World, Faults

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• Translators can be considered as busy matchmakers who praise as extremely desirable a half-veiled beauty. They arouse an irresistible yearning for the original.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Half, Busy, Yearning

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• Authors who moan with praise for their editors always seem to reek slightly of the Stockholm syndrome.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Writing, Editors, Syndromes

  Christopher Hitchens (2013). “Blood, Class and Empire: The Enduring Anglo-American Relationship”, p.8, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• What is life? A continuous praise and blame.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Blame, What Is Life

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• Enjoying praise is in some people merely a civility of the heart--and just the opposite of a vanity of the spirit.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Heart, Vanity, Opposites

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• The best way to give assistance to those who are deeply embarrassed and to calm them down is to praise them decisively.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Giving, Way, Calm

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• For as long as they praise you, never forget that it is not yet your own path that you walk, but another person's.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Long, Path, Never Forget

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• Those they praise, but they read the others.

  Martial

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

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• Praise is the daughter of present power.

  Jonathan Swift

  Daughter

  Jonathan Swift (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)”, p.897, Delphi Classics

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• Praise is a debt we owe unto the virtue of others, and due unto our own from all whom malice hath not made mutes, or envy struck dumb.

  Thomas Browne

  Envy, Dumb, Debt

  Sir Thomas Browne (1844). “Religio Medici [and] Its Sequel Christian Morals”, p.152

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• The life without men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Success, Men, Kind

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.22, Graphic Arts Books

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• Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints. Our hymn-books resound with a melodious cursing of God and enduring Him forever. One would say that even the prophets and redeemers had rather consoled the fears than confirmed the hopes of man. There is nowhere recorded a simple and irrepressible satisfaction with the gift of life, any memorable praise of God.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Book, Communication, Memorable

  Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden: 150th Anniversary Illustrated Edition of the American Classic”, p.75, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• For a companion, I require one who will make an equal demand on me with my own genius. Such a one will always be rightly tolerant.It is suicide, and corrupts good manners, to welcome any less than this. I value and trust those who love and praise my aspiration rather than my performance. If you would not stop to look at me, but look whither I am looking, and farther, then my education could not dispense with your company.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Suicide, Ambition

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.212, Delphi Classics

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• I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.

  St. Jerome

  Marriage, Unions, Wedlock

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• We thirst for approbation, yet cannot forgive the approver.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Forgiving, Thirst

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.378, Рипол Классик

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• It would be a kind of ferocity to reject indifferently all sorts of praise. One should be glad to have that which comes from good men who praise in sincerity things that are really praiseworthy.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, Good Man, Would Be

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• Genius and great abilities are often wanting; sometimes, only opportunities. Some deserve praise for what they have done; others for what they would have done.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Opportunity, Genius, Done

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• Women are hard and proud and stubborn-hearted,
  Their heads being turned with praise and flattery;
  And that is why their lovers are afraid
  To tell them a plain story.

  William Butler Yeats

  Women, Stories, Stubborn

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol II: The Plays”, p.270, Simon and Schuster

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• But stories that live longest
  Are sung above the glass,
  And Parnell loved his country
  And Parnell loved his lass.

  William Butler Yeats

  Country, Glasses, Stories

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.265, Wordsworth Editions

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• Any day, any minute we bless God for our being or for anything, for food, for sunlight, we do and are what we were meant for, madefor--things that give and mean to give God glory.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Mean, Giving, Glory

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (1937). “The note-books and papers of Gerard Manley Hopkins”

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