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• We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.

  William Penn

  Love, Virtue, Ifs

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn: In Five Volumes. ...”, p.181

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• The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.

  Samuel Butler

  Inspirational, Advantage, Right Place

  Way of All Flesh (1903) ch. 34

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• Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults.

  Socrates

  Faith, Wisdom, Thinking

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.

  Alexander Pope

  Literature, Satire, Disguise

  William Lisle Bowles, Alexander Pope (1820). “A reply to an "Unsentimental sort of critic,": the reviewer of "Spence's Anecdotes" in the Quarterly review for October [i.e. July] 1820; otherwise to a certain critic and grocer, the family of the Bowleses!!”, p.15

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• We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.

  Mark Twain

  Musical, Fifteen, Talent

  Mark Twain (2012). “Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 1, Reader’s Edition”, p.251, Univ of California Press

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• He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

  Samuel Johnson

  Inspirational, Criticism, Flattery

  Dr. Samuel Johnson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Johnson (Illustrated)”, p.8598, Delphi Classics

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• Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.

  Samuel Johnson

  Inspirational, Education, Appreciation

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.235

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• Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Inspirational, Heart, Blame

  1967 To My Daughters, With Love,'First Meeting'.

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• Has a woman who knew she was well-dressed ever caught a cold?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Cold, Well Dressed, Caught

  Friedrich Nietzsche, (2013). “The Will to Power - An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values - Vol II Books III and IV”, p.171, Read Books Ltd

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• Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Causes, Blame, Judgment

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• Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Friendship, Best Friend, Sweet

  'An After-Dinner Poem'

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• A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves with single morsels, and recompense the infrequency of their enjoyment by excess and riot, whenever fortune sets the banquet before them.

  Samuel Johnson

  Excess, Merit, Wealth

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.329

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• We are too apt to love praise, but not to deserve it.

  William Penn

  Deserve

  William Penn (1726). “A Collection of the Works of William Penn: To which is Prefixed a Journal of His Life, with Many Original Letters and Papers Not Before Published”, p.849

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• Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of, a blessing money can't buy.

  Izaak Walton

  Motivational, Fitness, Health

  'The Compleat Angler' (1653) pt. 1, ch. 21

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• There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Wise, Wisdom

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• Those are greedy of praise prove that they are poor in merit.

  Plutarch

  Merit, Greedy, Poor

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• Praise has different effects, according to the mind it meets with; it makes a wise man modest, but a fool more arrogant, turning his weak brain giddy.

  Owen Feltham

  Inspirational, Thanksgiving, Wise

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• Sweet is the breath of praise when given by those whose own high merit claims the praise they give.

  Hannah More

  Sweet, Giving, Merit

  Hannah More (1827). “Sacred Dramas: The Search After Happiness : and Other Poems”, p.54

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• We begin to praise when we begin to see a thing needs our assistance.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Encouraging, Needs, Assistance

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.14, Courier Corporation

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• The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.

  Billy Graham

  Christian, Feet, Sound

  Billy Graham (1966). “The Quotable Billy Graham”

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• I will praise any man that will praise me.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Flattery

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 2, sc. 6, l. [88]

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• I can live for two months on a good compliment.

  Mark Twain

  Love, Life, Relationship

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.9066, Delphi Classics

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• Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Friendship

  "My Country", Volume 2, No. 3, published by Litchfield Historical Society, p. 23, September 1968.

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• Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble.

  John Madden

  Self Esteem, Humble, Sunset

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• Blame is safer than praise

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Criticism, Blame, Critics

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Portable Emerson”, p.129, Penguin

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