Quotes 81 till 100 of 149.
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Praise from an enemy is the most pleasing of all commendations.
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Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain that the virtuous.
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Praise God even when you don't understand what He is doing.
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Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
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Praise the sea; on shore remain.
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
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Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.
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So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
Bertrand Russells Best -
Some day the soft Ideal that we wooed confronts us fiercely, foe-beset, pursued, and cries reproachful: ''Was it then my praise, and not myself was loved? Prove now thy truth; I claim of thee the promise of thy youth.''
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Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.
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Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.
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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
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The creative person, the person who moves from an irrational source of power, has to face the fact that this power antagonizes. Under all the superficial praise of the ''creative'' is the desire to kill. It is the old war between the mystic and the nonmystic, a war to the death.
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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.
The quotable Billy Graham (1966) -
The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants.
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The journey that 'In Praise of Slowness' has made since publication shows how far this message resonates. The book has been translated into more than 30 languages. It appears on reading lists from business schools to yoga retreats. Rabbis, priests and imams have quoted from it in their sermons.
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