Quotes with commendation

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• Small matters win great commendation.

  Francis Bacon
  English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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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
  English writer (1709 - 1784)
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• We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero
  Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• commendation
• infrequency
• recompense
• enjoyment
• whenever
• morsels

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