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• The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honors.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Honor, Shadow

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• Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men but from doing something worthwhile.

  Wilfred Grenfell

  Inspirational, Happiness, Real

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• You may be liberal in your praise where praise is due: it costs nothing; it encourages much.

  Horace Mann

  Cost, May, Dues

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• There's no weapon that slays its victim so surely (if well aimed) as praise.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Weapons, Victim, Wells

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• The praise we seek for our own virtues sometimes tempts us to flatter the imperfections of other men.

  Norm MacDonald

  Men, Imperfection, Sometimes

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• The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Men, Envy, Philosopher

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• The man who is praised by others is regarded as worthy though he may be really void of all merit. But the man who sings his own praises becomes disgraced though he should be Indra, the possessor of all excellencies.

  Chanakya

  Men, Merit, May

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• Put least trust in him who is foremost to praise you, nor judge of a road till it draw to the end.

  John Boyle O'Reilly

  Judging, Ends, Draws

  John Boyle O'Reilly (1882). “Songs, Legends and Ballads”

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• He, who loves praise, loves temptation.

  Thomas F. Wilson

  Temptation

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• Better to deserve praise without having it, than to have it without deserving it.

  Ivan Panin

  Deserving It, Deserve, Deserving

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• A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Workout, Desire, Refusal

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 624-25, Maxims. No. 152, 1922.

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• What you applaud you encourage, but beware what you celebrate.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Encouraging, Celebrate, Applause

  Twitter post from Jun 03, 2015

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• Praise never gives us much pleasure unless it concur with our own opinion, and extol us for those qualities in which we chiefly excel.

  David Hume

  Giving, Quality, Opinion

  David Hume (1793). “Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects”, p.206

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• He hurts me most who lavishly commends.

  Charles Churchill

  Hurt, Hurt Me, He Hurt Me

  Charles Churchill (1822). “The Poems of Charles Churchill”, p.83

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• For the good, when praised, feel something of disgust, if to excess commended.

  Euripides

  Excess, Disgusting, Feels

  Euripides (1832). “Euripides”, p.181

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• Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Money, Vanity, Criticism

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• It is easier and handier for men to flatter than to praise.

  Jean Paul

  Men, Criticism, Flattery

  "Titan: A Romance".

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• Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Depression, Refusal

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.122, Shambhala Publications

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• We find it easy to believe that praise is sincere: why should anyone lie in telling us the truth?

  Jean Rostand

  Lying, Believe, Recognition

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• History is the story of events, with praise or blame.

  Cotton Mather

  History, Events, Stories

  Cotton Mather (1977). “Magnalia Christi Americana, books I and II”

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• Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to praise.

  Wendell Phillips

  Know How, Knows

  "Fraternity Lecture of Wendell Phillips, Esq: Boston, Oct. 4, 1859. Also, Letter of Mr. Phillips to Judge Shaw and Prest. Walker".

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• Praise, of all things, is the most powerful excitement to commendable actions, and animates us in our enterprises.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Powerful, Action, Excitement

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• For if good were not praised more than ill,
  None would chuse goodness of his own free will.

  Edmund Spenser

  Free Will, Goodness, Ifs

  Edmund Spenser, John Aikin (1810). “Hymns. Visions. Elegiac poems”, p.266

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• What we admire we praise; and when we praise,
  Advance it into notice, that its worth
  Acknowledged, others may admire it too.

  William Cowper

  May, Admire

  William Cowper, Robert Southey, William Harvey (1835). “The Works of William Cowper: Comprising His Poems, Correspondence, and Translations. With a Life of the Author”, p.26

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• A little praise is good for a shy temper; it teaches it to rely on the kindness of others.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Kindness, Shy, Littles

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