"Idleness and fear keeps us in the path of duty, but our virtue often gets the praise."
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"A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice."
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"A person is bound to lose when he talks about himself; if he belittles himself, he is believed; if he praises himself, he isn't believed."
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"It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it."
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"The human mind is generally far more eager to praise or dispraise than it is to describe and define."
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"Those are greedy of praise prove that they are poor in merit."
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"If a man would reap praise, you must sow the seeds, gentle words and useful deeds."
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"He hurts me most who lavishly commends."
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"Authors who moan with praise for their editors always seem to reek slightly of the Stockholm syndrome."
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"If we regulate our conduct according to our own convictions, we may safely disregard the praise or censure of others."
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"Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard."
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"It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise."
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"I will praise any man that will praise me."
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"The house praises the carpenter."
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"There are many occasions when the highest praise one can receive is the attack of some given scoundrel."
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"It's the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit."
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"Those who praise themselves do not prevail."
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"Some reproaches praise; some praises reproach."
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"The fact is that certain themes cannot be celebrated in words, and tyranny is one of them. No one ever wrote a good book in praise of the Inquisition."
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"Truth is so excellent, that if it praises but small things they become noble."
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