"Yet a real artist, I've noticed, will survive anything. (Even praise, I happily suspect.)"
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"Though strength be wanting, the will to action Merits praise."
"I see and praise what is better, but follow what is worse."
"Praise adds nothing to beauty--makes it neither better nor worse."
"Honourable mention encourages science, and merit is fostered by praise."
"The mark of extraordinary merit is to see those most envious of it constrained to praise."
"There is no praise we have not lavished upon prudence; and yet she cannot assure to us the most trifling event."
"He who refuses praise the first time that it is offered does so because he would hear it a second time."
"Criticism sometimes is really praise, and praise sometimes slander."
"Lord! who hath praise enough?"
"When good friends praise a gifted person he often appears to be delighted with them out of politeness and goodwill, but in reality he feels indifferent."
"What is life? A continuous praise and blame."
"Praise is more obtrusive than a reproach."
"Your saying 'I do not understand you' is praise beyond my worth, and an insult you do not deserve."
"When you praise someone you call yourself his equal."
"One is led astray alike by sympathy and coldness, by praise and by blame"
"Translators can be considered as busy matchmakers who praise as extremely desirable a half-veiled beauty. They arouse an irresistible yearning for the original."
"Better to be despised, then, than to be ignored; or damned with condescending praise."
"The only time people do not like praise is when too much of it is going toward someone else."
"Reproach is usually honest, which is more than can be said of praise."