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• Praise begets emulation,--a goodly seed to sow among youthful students.

  Horace Mann

  Emulation, Students, Seeds

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• Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. It becomes cheap as it becomes vulgar, and will no longer raise expectation or animate enterprise.

  Samuel Johnson

  Expectations, Gold, Scarcity

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.235

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• Praise from an enemy smells of craft.

  John Milton

  Smell, Enemy, Crafts

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• An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. If you reject it you are unhappy, if you accept it you are undone.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Mind, Unhappy, Accepting

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The Works of Walter Savage Landor”, p.319

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• Our praises are our wages.

  William Shakespeare

  Wages

  William Shakespeare (1866). “A Treasury of Thought from Shakespeare: the choice sayings of his principal characters analytically and alphabetically arranged”, p.290

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• I agree that two times two makes four is an excellent thing; but if we are dispensing praise, then two times two makes five is sometimes a most charming little thing as well.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Two, Four, Littles

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• It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

  Joseph Addison

  Inspiring, Perfect, Excellence

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• Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

  Winston Churchill

  Leadership, Pain, Growth

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• The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  War, Men, Firsts

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• Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Children, Flower, Sun

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.104

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• A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Men, Serious

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• The praise of the praiseworthy is above all rewards.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Inspiring Love, Rewards, Lord Of The Ring

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.465, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Pain, Emotional, Criticism

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.109, Rowman & Littlefield

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• An ingenious mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Mind, Criticism, Feels

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• Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Sister, Hope, Women

  1888 Plain Tales from the Hills,'False Dawn'.

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• In praising Antony I have dispraised Caesar.

  Cleopatra

  Fake People, Antony, People

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• He that searches for praise will often find contempt.

  Norm MacDonald

  Contempt

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• Hunger is never delicate; they who are seldom gorged to the full with praise may be safely fed with gross compliments, for the appetite must be satisfied before it is disgusted.

  Samuel Johnson

  May, Hunger, Compliment

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.329

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• The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain.

  Samuel Johnson

  Real, Satisfaction, Vain

  Samuel Johnson (1833). “The Life of Johnson: with Maxims and Observations: Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous, Accurately Selected from the Works of Dr. Samuel Johnson, and Arranged in Alphabetical Order”, p.218

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• Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  God, Voice, Earth

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1856). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.155

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• Attach yourself to those who advise you rather than praise you.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Friendship, Advise

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• Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.

  Seneca the Younger

  Giving, Judgement, Blame

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• Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit, we cannot flower and grow without it.

  Jess Lair

  Children, Flower, Support

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• The sweeter sound of woman's praise.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Sound

  Thomas Babbington Macaulay, “Lines Written In August”

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• Censure is often useful, praise is often deceitful.

  Winston Churchill

  Deceitful, Censure

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