"Ways of worshipping are not to be ranked as better or worse than one another . . . It's all praise, and it's all right."
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"Let us praise even the slightest improvement. That inspires the other person to keep on improving."
"If you don't live by the praise of men you won't die by their criticism."
"Not praising the deserving prevents envy."
"When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time."
"It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?"
"The best work is a fusion of love and praise."
"For the good, when praised, feel something of disgust, if to excess commended."
"In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty."
"Blame is safer than praise"
"When we complain about our current situation, we remain in it; when we praise God in the midst of difficulty, He raises us out of it."
"But many of the bravest never are known, and get no praise. That does not lessen their beauty."
"It is requisite to defend those who are unjustly accused of having acted injuriously, but to praise those who excel in a certain good."
"They gave me star treatment when I was making a lot of money. But I was just as good when I was poor."
"Our praises are our wages."
"Praise shames me, for I secretly beg for it."
"The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places."
"Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place?"
"The great thing, and the only thing, is to adore and praise GOD."
"He deserves praise who does not what he may, but what he ought."