Quotes 101 till 120 of 149.
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The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.
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The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a ''But''.
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The monster of advertisement... is a sort of octopus with innumerable tentacles. It throws out to right and left, in front and behind, its clammy arms, and gathers in, through its thousand little suckers, all the gossip and slander and praise afloat, to spit out again at the public.
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The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
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The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.
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The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working.
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The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.
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The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension.
In Defence Of Politics Ch. 7, In Praise Of Politics, p. 140 -
The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain.
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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.
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The shame that arises from praise which we do not deserve often makes us do things we should otherwise never have attempted.
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The spark for 'In Praise of Slowness' came when I began reading to my children. Every parent knows that kids like their bedtime stories read at a gentle, meandering pace. But I used to be too fast to slow down with the Brothers Grimm. I would zoom through the classic fairy tales, skipping lines, paragraphs, whole pages.
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The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
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The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.
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There are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise.
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There is no praise to beat the sort you can put in your pocket.
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There's not one wise man among twenty will praise himself.
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They are good furniture pictures, unworthy of praise, and undeserving of blame.
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