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• I live and reign since I have abandoned those pleasures which you by your praises extol to the skies.
  [Lat., Vivo et regno, simul ista reliqui
  Quae vos ad coelum effertis rumore secundo.]

  Horace

  Sky, Reign, Pleasure

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• He who sings the praises of his boyhood's days.

  Horace

  Boyhood

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• Few rash of any modern nation have a proper sense of an aesthetical whole; they praise and blame by parts; they are charmed by passages. And who has greater reason to rejoice in this than actors, since the stage is ever but a patched and piecemeal matter?

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Acting, Matter, Actors

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• What higher praise can we bestow on any one than to say of him that he harbors another's prejudices with a hospitality so cordial as to give him, for the time, the sympathy next best to, if indeed it be not edification in, charity itself. For what disturbs more and distracts mankind than the uncivil manners that cleave man from man?

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Men, Giving, Prejudice

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1872). “Concord Days”, p.31

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• There's nothing a man can stand so much of as praise.

  Kate Langley Bosher

  Men

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• That an author's work is the mirror of his mind is a position that has led to very false conclusions. If Satan himself were to write a book it would be in praise of virtue, because the good would purchase it for use, and the bad for ostentation.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Book, Writing, Mirrors

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.141

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• Solitude delighteth well to feed on many thoughts;
  There as thou sittest peaceful, communing with fancy,
  The precious poetry of life shall gild its leaden cares;
  There, as thou walkest by the sea beneath the gentle stars,
  Many kindling seeds of good will sprout within thy soul;
  Thou shalt weep in Solitude,--thou shalt pray in Solitude.
  Thou shalt sing for joy of heart, and praise the grace of Solitude.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Stars, Heart, Sea

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• One cares so little for the style in which one's praises are written.

  Edith Wharton

  Style, Care, Littles

  Edith Wharton (2015). “Edith Wharton: Collected Stories Vol. 1 1891-1910”, p.174, Library of America

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• There are times when the thing we are seeing changes before our very eyes, and if it is a landscape we praise nature, and if it is celestial we invoke God, but if it is a loved one who defects, we excuse ourselves and say we have to be somewhere and are already late for our next appointment. We do not stay to put pennies over the half-dead eyes.

  Edna O'Brien

  Eye, Half, Landscape

  Edna O'Brien (1974). “A Scandalous Woman, and Other Stories”

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• If you mean to profit, learn to praise.

  Charles Churchill

  Mean, Flattery, Profit

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• The stage I chose--a subject fair and free--
  'Tis yours--'tis mine--'tis public property.
  All common exhibitions open lie,
  For praise or censure, to the common eye.
  Hence are a thousand hackney writers fed;
  Hence monthly critics earn their daily bread.
  This is a general tax which all must pay,
  From those who scribble, down to those who play.

  Charles Churchill

  Lying, Eye, Play

  Charles Churchill, George Gilfillan (1855). “The poetical works of Charles Churchill: with memoir, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes / by the Rev. George Gilfillan”, p.43

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• The wrong kind of praise creates self-defeating behavior. The right kind motivates students to learn.

  Carol S. Dweck

  Self, Students, Kind

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• We often praise the evening clouds, And tints so gay and bold, But seldom think upon our God, Who tinged these clouds with gold.

  Walter Scott

  Gay, Thinking, Clouds

  Walter Scott, Sir Walter Scott (1841). “The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart”, p.623

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• Across the board, it's infinitely more effective to praise actions that you want to encourage than to punish those you disapprove of.

  Jude Bijou

  Boards, Want, Action

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• Praise causes the presence of the Lord to come into our midst. Even though God is omniscient, He manifests His authority and rule in our environment when we praise Him. When we praise, God comes in and leads us forth... He does not just visit us, but He abides and aligns Himself with us to walk with us into the path that He has chosen for us.

  Chuck Pierce

  Doe, Path, Causes

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• Praise is always pleasing, let it come from whom, or upon what account it will.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Accounts

  Michel de Montaigne “Annotated Essays of Michel de Montaigne with English Grammar Exercises: by Michel de Montaigne (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• How many things by season seasoned are To their right praise and true perfection!

  William Shakespeare

  Perfection, Merchant Of Venice, Timeliness

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 5, sc. 1, l. 102

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• Unmerited abuse wounds, while unmerited praise has not the power to heal.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Abuse, Heal, Wounds

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin”, p.151

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• If thy debtor be honest and capable, thou hast thy money again, if not with increase, with praise; if he prove insolvent, don't ruin him to get that which it will not ruin thee to lose, for thou art but a steward.

  William Penn

  Death, Art, Debtors

  Benjamin Franklin, John Woolman, William Penn (1909). “The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”

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• A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul.

  Russell Baker

  Men, Soul, Earth

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• ...I will praise the English climate till I die—even if I die of the English climate. There is no weather so good as English weather. Nay, in a real sense there is no weather at all anywhere but in England. In France you have much sun and some rain; in Italy you have hot winds and cold winds; in Scotland and Ireland you have rain, either thick or thin; in America you have hells of heat and cold, and in the Tropics you have sunstrokes varied by thunderbolts. But all these you have on a broad and brutal scale, and you settle down into contentment or despair.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Real, Rain, America

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• It is great to get praise from the lips of taciturnity.

  John Addington Symonds

  Lips

  John Addington Symonds (1968). “The Letters of John Addington Symonds: 1869-1884”

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• It's the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.

  Seneca the Younger

  Admirer, Provoking, Commit

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• No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise.

  Martial

  Hero, Winning, Men

  Martial (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Martial (Illustrated)”, p.8, Delphi Classics

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• All panegyrics are mingled with an infusion of poppy.

  Jonathan Swift

  Poppies, Infusion

  Jonathan Swift, David Laing Purves (1871). “The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: Carefully Selected; with a Biography of the Author”, p.520

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