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• If one day I look out from my cabin's porch and see a row of windmills spinning in the distance, I won't curse them. I will praise them. It will mean we are finally getting somewhere.

  David Suzuki

  Distance, Mean, One Day

  "The Beauty of Wind Farms". www.newscientist.com. April 13, 2005.

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• From all who dwell below the skiesLet the Creator's praise arise;Let the Redeemer's name be sungThrough every land, by every tongue.

  Isaac Watts

  Land, Names, Tongue

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• After having admired the women of Rome, say to yourself, 'I too am beautiful!' ... In you I met a real person. I need not give you any other praise.

  Margaret Fuller

  Beautiful, Real, Rome

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• If people like you, they will like your magic. If you are an artist at what you do, they will sing your praises and applaud your artistry.

  Paul LePaul

  Artist, People, Magic

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• If you can show me how I can cling to that which is real to me, while teaching me a way into the larger society, then and only then will I drop my defenses and hostility, and I will sing your praises and help you to make the desert bear fruit.

  Ralph Ellison

  Real, Teaching, Singing

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• I don’t believe that a reviewer or a critic can really criticize well unless he can praise well.

  James Dickey

  Believe, Criticize, Critics

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• So if I were talking to a young writer, I would recommend the cultivation of extreme indifference to both praise and blame because praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers.

  John Berryman

  Vanity, Self, Talking

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• Praise the name of baseball. The word will set captives free. The word will open the eyes of the blind. The word will raise the dead. Have you the word of baseball living inside you? Has the word of baseball become part of you? Do you live it, play it, digest it, forever? Let an old man tell you to make the word of baseball your life. Walk into the world and speak of baseball. Let the word flow through you like water, so that it may quicken the thirst of your fellow man.

  W. P. Kinsella

  Baseball, Eye, Men

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• Ah woe is me, through all my daysWisdom and wealth I both have got,And fame and name and great men's praise;But Love, ah! Love I have it not.

  Henry Cuyler Bunner

  Men, Woe Is Me, Names

  Henry Cuyler Bunner, “The Way To Arcady”

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• The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers. I, on the contrary, maintain that they ought to be praised in their lifetime if they merit it; but jealousy and calumny, roused against their virtue or their talent, labour to degrade them if any one ventures to bear testimony to them. It is unjust criticism that they should fear to hazard, not sincere praise.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Men, Unjust Criticism, Envy

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• Father, show me how to praise Thee When I seek Thy courts to-day; Guide me by Thy love, and raise me -- Let me feel the words I say. Bless me on this hallowed morning, Bid my soul to Thee draw near; Teach me, and my heart shall listen -- Speak, Lord, and Thy child shall hear.

  Sarah Doudney

  Morning, Children, Father

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• Begin with praise and honest appreciation.

  Dale Carnegie

  Appreciation, Honest, Win Friends And Influence People

  Dale Carnegie (2010). “How To Win Friends and Influence People”, p.236, Simon and Schuster

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• Praise is like sunlight to the warm human spirit; we cannot flower and grow without it. And yet, while most of us are only too ready to apply to others the cold wind of criticism, we are somehow reluctant to give our fellow the warm sunshine of praise.

  Dale Carnegie

  Flower, Sunshine, Wind

  Dale Carnegie (1982). “How To Win Friends And Influence People”, p.227, Simon and Schuster

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• This food-and-shelter theory concerning man's efforts is without insight. Our most persistent and spectacular efforts are concerned not with the preservation of what we are but with the building up of an imaginary conception of ourselves in the opinion of others. The desire for praise is more imperative than the desire for food and shelter.

  Eric Hoffer

  Men, Building Up, Effort

  "Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook" by Tom Bethell in Harper's Magazine, July 2005.

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• Brooklyn praise is half slander.

  Mark Twain

  Brooklyn, Half, Slander

  Mark Twain (2013). “Autobiography of Mark Twain”, p.370, Univ of California Press

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• Happy will be the men who, having the power and the love and the benevolent forecast to [create a park], will do it. They will not be forgotten. The trees and their lovers will sing their praises, and generations yet unborn will rise up and call them blessed.

  John Muir

  Blessed, Men, Tree

  John Muir (1988). “Northwest Passages - From the Pen of John Muir: In California, Oregon, Washington, and Alaska”

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• It is an inwariable rule with the dealers to praise the bad points and let the good 'uns speak for themselves.

  Robert Smith Surtees

  Speak, Dealer

  Robert Smith Surtees, Author of Mr. Sponge's sporting tour (1854). “Handley Cross: Or, Mr. Jorrocks's Hunt”, p.140

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• Those may justly be reckoned void of understanding that do not bless and praise God; nor do men ever rightly use their reason till they begin to be religious, nor live as men till they live to the glory of God. As reason is the substratum or subject of religion (so that creatures which have no reason are not capable of religion), so religion is the crown and glory of reason, and we have our reason in vain, and shall one day wish we had never had it, if we do not glorify God with it.

  Matthew Henry

  Religious, Men, Understanding

  Matthew Henry “Matthew HenryÕs Commentary on the Whole Bible: Volume IV-III - Ezekiel to Hosea”, Lulu.com

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• Son, if a maiden love thee, thou shalt appear handsome in her sight; she shall praise thine eyes, and the corners of thy mouth, yea, she shall admire thy hands. Though thou wert even as the orangutan yet shall she paint thee with fancies.

  Gelett Burgess

  Love, Eye, Son

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• Your great glory is not to be inferior to what you have been given by nature, and the greatest glory of a woman is to be least talked about by men, whether theyare praising or criticizing you.

  Pericles

  Men, Glory, Given

  Address to women in the Funerary Oration. Quoted in Thucydides History of the PeloponnesianWar, 2.45.2 (translated by RWarner,1961).

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• The most common disguise of Envy is in praise of what is subordinate.

  Washington Allston

  Envy, Common, Disguise

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• We praise Thee, Lord, of all the earth, for love and joy, for light and mirth, for every charm of sense and right, and blessings boundless as Thy might.... But most we praise the love that gave thine own dear Son to seek and save, for joy all other joys excelling, for purest light and life indwelling.

  Cecil Frances Alexander

  Jesus, Son, Blessing

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• Elisabeth, again, while she praises her, is so far from hiding the Divine glory, that she ascribes everything to God. And yet, though she acknowledges the superiority of Mary to herself and to others, she does not envy her the higher distinction, but modestly declares that she had obtained more than she deserved.

  John Calvin

  Envy, Doe, Glory

  John Calvin (2013). “Commentary on Luke”, p.43, Ravenio Books

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• It is a bad sign when a new-born babe has not lungs enough to make itself heard over the whole house. It is equally a bad symptom when the new convert is born dumb, and cannot find his voice to praise God audibly.

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Voice, House, Dumb

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 562, 1895.

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• Calmly take what ill betideth;
  Patience wins the crown at length:
  Rich repayment him abideth
  Who endures in quiet strength.
  Brave the tamer of the lion;
  Brave whom conquered kingdoms praise;
  Bravest he who rules his passions,
  Who his own impatience sways.

  Johann Gottfried Herder

  Passion, Winning, Brave

  "'Die wiedergefundenen Söhne' ('The Recovered Sons', 1801)". The Monthly Religious Magazine, Volume 10, p. 445, 1853.

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