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• As we begin to praise ourselves and our world, we begin to blossom in ways that are beautiful to behold.

  John Templeton

  Beautiful, Our World, Way

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• Praise is sometimes a good thing for the diffident and the despondent. It teaches them properly to rely on the kindness of others.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Kindness, Sometimes, Good Things

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• I do not know whether anyone has ever succeeded in not enjoying praise. And, if we enjoy it, we naturally wants to receive it. And if we want to receive it, we cannot help but being distraught at losing it. Those who are in love with applause have their spirits starved not only when they are blamed off-hand, but even when they fail to be constantly praised.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Hands, Want, Spirit

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• What happens when we begin to praise our own abilities? And this is not focusing on an inflated ego, but on appreciation and praise. What happens when we begin sincerely to give thanks for our wonderful minds and our strong and healthy bodies? It's not at all difficult to believe that our own senses of confidence and self-worth are actually activated and strengthened.

  John Templeton

  Appreciation, Strong, Believe

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• Praise is the only gift for which people are really grateful. Marguerite, Countess of Blessington I praise loudly; I blame softly.

  Catherine the Great

  Grateful, People, Blame

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• The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise, as the greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure.

  John Ruskin

  Race, Effort, Pleasure

  John Ruskin (2008). “The Lamp of Memory”, p.43, Penguin UK

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• The Sufis have a saying: "Praise Allah, and tie your camel to a post." This brings together both parts of practice: pray, yes, but also make sure that you do what is necessary in the world.

  Jack Kornfield

  Prayer, Practice, Ties

  "Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation". Book by Jack Kornfield, Joseph Goldstein, 1987.

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• Praise the child, and you make love to the mother.

  William Cobbett

  Mother, Children, Making Love

  William Cobbett (1829). “Advice to Young Men, and, incidentally, to Young Women, in the middle and higher ranks of life. In a series of letters, etc”, p.181

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• That one woman is capable of loving another is an historical truth; but never yet lived one who could not listen to her own praises at the expense of her adored friend.

  Minna Antrim

  Historical, Expenses, One Woman

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• All the praise I received couldn't substitute for the praise I had never received from my mother at home. I longed for some wonderful man to come and save me from my life - but there didn't seem to be any, at least not for me.

  Bess Myerson

  Mother, Home, Men

  "As American As Cheesecake" by Ellen Goodman, www.nytimes.com. November 15, 1987.

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• It's easier to find a new audience than to write a new speech.

  Dan S Kennedy

  Writing, Speech, Easier

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• There's nothing worse than someone coming up to me and going Oh God, I really love your hair.

  Gavin Rossdale

  Love You, Hair

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• You cannot describe it or draw it. You cannot praise it enough or perceive it. No place can be found in which to put the Original Face; it will not disappear even when the universe is destroyed.

  Wumen Huikai

  Faces, Spirituality, Enough

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• Praise the Lord, but do me a favor, don't ever say 'Stephen Baldwin' and 'ministry' in the same sentence.

  Stephen Baldwin

  Ministry, Favors, Lord

  "Stephen Baldwin: The Jesus Freak of Hollywood". Interview with Scott Ross, www.cbn.com.

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• Our entire being is fashioned as an instrument of praise. Just as a master violin maker designs an instrument to produce maximum aesthetic results, so God tailor-made our bodies, souls and spirits to work together in consonance to produce pleasing expressions of praise and worship. When we use body language to express praise, that which is internal becomes visible.

  Lamar Boschman

  Expression, Design, Soul

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• There is no praise in being upright, where no one can, or tries to corrupt you.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Honor, Trying

  "In Verrem", II. 1. 16, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 372-75,

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• I have been so great a lover: filled my days So proudly with the splendour of Love's praise, The pain, the calm, and the astonishment, Desire illimitable, and silent content, And all dear names men use, to cheat despair, For the perplexed and viewless streams that bear Our hearts at random down the dark of life.

  Rupert Brooke

  Life, Pain, Heart

  Rupert Brooke (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)”, p.43, Delphi Classics

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• Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes, Flow gently, I'll sing thee a song in thy praise.

  Robert Burns

  Song, Sweet, Rivers

  'Afton Water' (1792)

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• Praise the Sea, but keepe on land.

  George Herbert

  Ocean, Sea, Land

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.340

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• Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise, We love the play-place of our early days; The scene is touching, and the heart is stone, That feels not at that sight, and feels at none.

  William Cowper

  Heart, Sight, Play

  William Cowper (1790). “Poems: by William Cowper, ... In two volumes. ...”, p.237

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• I sometimes think, with a sad delight, that if one day, in a future I no longer belong to, these sentences, that I write, last with praise, I will at last have the people who understand me, those mine, the true family to be born in and be loved... I will only be understood in effigy, when affection no longer repays the dead the unaffection that was, when living.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Writing, Thinking, People

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p. 182, 1982.

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• Burn to be great, Pay not thy praise to lofty things alone. The plains are everlasting as the hills, The bard cannot have two pursuits; aught else Comes on the mind with the like shock as though Two worlds had gone to war, and met in air.

  Philip James Bailey

  War, Greatness, Air

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• The Bible is not primarily a written or printed text to be scrutinized in private, in a scholar's study or a contemplative cell. It is a body of oral messages, announcements, prophecies, promulgations, recitals, histories, songs of praise, lamentations, etc., which are meant either to be uttered or at least read aloud, or chanted, or sung, or recited in a community convoked for the purpose of a living celebration.

  Thomas Merton

  Song, Cells, Community

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• Courage, the highest gift, that scorns to bend To mean devices for a sordid end. Courage--an independent spark from Heaven's bright throne, By which the soul stands raised, triumphant high, alone. Great in itself, not praises of the crowd, Above all vice, it stoops not to be proud. Courage, the mighty attribute of powers above, By which those great in war, are great in love. The spring of all brave acts is seated here, As falsehoods draw their sordid birth from fear.

  George Farquhar

  Courage, War, Spring

  William. II Congreve William Wycherley (John Vanbrugh and Farquhar George), William. II Wycherley, William Congreve, George Farquhar, John Vanbrugh (1840). “Dramatic Works with Biographical and Critical Notices by Leigh Hunt. - London, Moxon 1840”, p.485

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• I shall praise those faces which seem to project out of the picture as though they were sculptured, and I shall censure those faces in which I see no art but that of outline.

  Leon Battista Alberti

  Art, Portraiture, Faces

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