"People blush at praise--not only praise of their bodies, but praise of anything that is theirs."
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"Envy bestrides praise."
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"Not every love, but only that which has a noble purpose, is noble and worthy of praise."
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"Wonder is involuntary praise."
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"Bid a singer in a chorus, Know Thyself; and will he not turn for the knowledge to the others, his fellows in the chorus, and to his harmony with them?"
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"Praise little, dispraise less."
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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."
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"Diogenes would frequently praise those who were about to marry, and yet did not marry."
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"I don't praise my people. I am their greatest critic."
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"We have almost reached the point where praise of rationality is held to mark a man as an old fogey regrettably surviving from a bygone age."
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"I condemn equally those who choose to praise man, those who choose to condemn him and those who choose to divert themselves, and I can only approve of those who seek with groans."
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"Work is the only thing I do to escape the corruption of praise."
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"All appreciations and praises are worthless unless the one you love appreciates"
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"Good things should be praised."
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"Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove."
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"Can any praise be worthy of the Lord's majesty?"
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"If somebody praises us and if we have any humility we will feel totally like a fool."
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"The picture waits for my verdict; it is not to command me, but I am to settle its claim to praise."
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"We do what we must, and call it by the best names we can, and would fain have the praise of having intended the result which ensues."
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"The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants."
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