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• One thing scientists have discovered is that often-praised children become more intelligent than often-blamed ones. There's a creative element in praise.

  Thomas Dreier

  Children, Intelligent, Creative

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• Even great men are only truly recognized and honored once they are dead. Why? Because those who praise them need to feel themselves somehow superior to the person praised, they need to feel they are making some concession.

  Clarice Lispector

  Men, Needs, Feels

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• A writer never forgets the first time he accepted a few coins or a word of praise in exchange for a story. He will never forget the sweet poison of vanity in his blood and the belief that, if he succeeds in not letting anyone discover his lack of talent, the dream of literature will provide him with a roof over his head, a hot meal at the end of the day, and what he covets the most: his name printed on a miserable piece of paper that surely will outlive him. A writer is condemned to remember that moment, because from then on he is doomed and his soul has a price.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Dream, Sweet, Blood

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• Love demands expression. It will not stay still, stay silent, be good, be modest, be seen and not heard, no. It will break out in tongues of praise, the high note that smashes the glass and spills the liquid.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Glasses, Expression, Break Out

  Jeanette Winterson (2013). “Written On The Body”, p.9, Random House

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• You can’t, if you can’t feel it, if it never Rises from the soul, and sways The heart of every single hearer, With deepest power, in simple ways. You’ll sit forever, gluing things together, Cooking up a stew from other’s scraps, Blowing on a miserable fire, Made from your heap of dying ash. Let apes and children praise your art, If their admiration’s to your taste, But you’ll never speak from heart to heart, Unless it rises up from your heart’s space.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Children, Simple

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• We delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation. It is not out of compliment that lovers keep on telling one another how beautiful they are; the delight is incomplete till it is expressed.

  C. S. Lewis

  Beautiful, Delight, Lovers

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.119, Simon and Schuster

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• ... active love is a harsh and fearful thing compared with the love in dreams. Love in dreams thirsts for immediate action, quickly performed, and with everyone watching. Indeed, it will go as far as the giving even of one's life, provided it does not take long but is soon over, as on stage, and eveyone is looking on and praising. Whereas active love is labor and persistence, and for some people, perhaps, a whole science.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Love, Dream, Persistence

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• Yet a real artist, I've noticed, will survive anything. (Even praise, I happily suspect.)

  J. D. Salinger

  Real, Artist, Suspects

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• If politicians lived on praise and thanks they'd be forced into some other line of business.

  Edward Heath

  Political, Lines, Politics

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Politics deserves much praise. Politics is a preoccupation of free men, and its existence is a test of freedom. The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension.

  Bernard Crick

  Men, Political, Politics

  "In Defence of Politics".

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• Only a humorless tyrant could want a perpetual chanting of praises that, one has no choice but to assume, would be the innate virtues and splendors furnished him by his creator, infinite regression, drowned in praise!

  Christopher Hitchens

  Tyrants, Choices, Religion

  Christopher Hitchens (2009). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.64, Basic Books

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• We who preach and write, do so in a manner different from which the Scriptures have been written. We write while we make progress.We learn something new every day. We speak as we still knock for understanding...If anyone criticizes me when I have said what is right, he does me an injustice. But I would be more angry with the one who praises me and takes what I have written for Gospel truth than I would be with the one who criticizes me unfairly.

  Saint Augustine

  Wisdom, Writing, Understanding

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• Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

  Karl Marx

  Life, Happiness, Philosophical

  Karl Marx, Loyd David Easton, Kurt H. Guddat (1997). “Writings of the Young Marx on Philosophy and Society”, p.39, Hackett Publishing

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• Praise when merited is not a boon: yet to a generous nature, is it pleasant to utter it.

  Herman Melville

  Boon, Pleasant, Generous

  Herman Melville, Robert C. Ryan, Hershel Parker (2009). “Published Poems: The Writings of Herman Melville”, p.680, Northwestern University Press

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• Praise is deeper than the lips

  Robert Browning

  Lips, Deeper

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.538, Wordsworth Editions

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• He wants worth who dares not praise a foe.

  John Dryden

  Want, Dare, Foe

  John Dryden (1701). “The Comedies, Tragedies, and Operas....: Now First Collected Together, and Corrected from the Roginals”, p.392

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• When will the men do something besides extend congratulations? I would rather have President Roosevelt say one word to Congress infavor of amending the Constitution to give women the suffrage than to praise me endlessly!

  Susan B. Anthony

  Congratulations, Men, Giving

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• [The political mind] is a strange mixture of vanity and timidity, of an obsequious attitude at one time and a delusion of grandeurat another time. The political mind is the product of men in public life who have been twice spoiled. They have been spoiled with praise and they have been spoiled with abuse.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Attitude, Men, Vanity

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• If a child lives with acceptance and friendship, he learns to find love in the world

  Dorothy Nolte

  Children, Acceptance, Parenting

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• I believe that you should praise people whenever you can; it causes them to respond as a thirsty plant responds to water.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Believe, People, Water

  Mary Kay Ash (2009). “The Mary Kay Way: Timeless Principles from America's Greatest Woman Entrepreneur”, p.37, John Wiley & Sons

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• Commending a right thing is a cheap substitute for doing it, with which we are too apt to satisfy ourselves.

  Hannah More

  Substitutes, Right Thing

  Hannah More (1840). “The Miscellaneous Works of Hannah More”, p.534

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• Too much praise makes you feel you must be doing something terribly wrong.

  Dorothy Day

  Too Much, Feels

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• Honesty, by evil fortune tried,
  Finds in adversity the seed of praise.

  Ovid

  Honesty, Adversity, Evil

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• Applause abates diligence.

  Samuel Johnson

  Diligence, Applause

  Samuel Johnson (1797). “The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, Etc. (A New Edition, Being the Ninth.).”, p.29

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• Though strength be wanting, the will to action
  Merits praise.

  Ovid

  Merit, Action

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