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87 quotesFools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.
Envy
John Gay
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A man trying to sell a blind horse always praises its feet.
Mediocrity
German Proverb
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A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.
self-esteem
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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I do not speak of what I cannot praise.
Speakers and Speaking
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
Critics and Criticism
Dag Hammarskjold
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It is a sign of a creeping inner death when we no longer can praise the living.
Death and Dying
Eric Hoffer
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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
Praise
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.
Martyrdom
Nathaniel Howe
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The work praises the man.
Work
Irish Proverb
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The best way to get praise is to die.
Praise
Italian Proverb
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Praise God even when you don't understand what He is doing.
Praise
Henry Jacobsen
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He who praises every body, praises nobody.
Uncategorised
Samuel Johnson
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He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
Praise
Samuel Johnson
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Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.
Flattery
Samuel Johnson
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Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
Value
Samuel Johnson
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The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants.
Servants
Samuel Johnson
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Integrity is praised and then left out in the cold.
Integrity
(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal
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He has great tranquillity of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
Blame
Thomas Kempis
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Never praise a sister to a sister in the hope of your compliments reaching he proper ears.
Praise
Rudyard Kipling
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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
Praise
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Usually we praise only to be praised.
Compliments
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
Praise
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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A child is fed with milk and praise.
Children
Mary Lamb
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An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
Merit
Walter Savage Landor
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A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.
Praise
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun