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A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.
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Jean De La Bruyere
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A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.
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Georg C. Lichtenberg
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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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55 votes
Admiration; is our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
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Ambrose Bierce
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Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.
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Publilius Syrus
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Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Edmund Burke
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Appreciative words are the most powerful force for good on earth!
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George W. Crane
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87 votes
Attach yourself to those who advise you rather than praise you.
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Nicholas Boileau
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Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.
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Alexander Pope
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Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.
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Will Rogers
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Has a woman who knew she was well-dressed ever caught a cold?
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
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Samuel Johnson
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56 votes
I do believe in praising that which deserves to be praised.
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Dean Smith
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I like to hear a man talk about himself because then I never hear anything, but good.
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Will Rogers
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I'm a bit of a P. T. Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
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Donald Trump
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I've always been a sucker for attention.
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Cuba Gooding Jr.
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37 votes
If you must strike a man from behind, slap hi on the back.
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Source Unknown
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39 votes
It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy.
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Sir Philip Sidney
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43 votes
Let another praise you and not your own mouth, a stranger and not your own lips.
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Bible
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78 votes
Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.
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Wendell Phillips
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Never praise a sister to a sister in the hope of your compliments reaching he proper ears.
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Rudyard Kipling
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No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important.
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Mary Kay Ash
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118 votes
One should use praise to recognize what one is not.
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Elias Canetti
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People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.
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Proverb
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44 votes
Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.
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Best of Bits and Pieces
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102 votes
Praise from an enemy is the most pleasing of all commendations.
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Sir Richard Steele
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42 votes
Praise God even when you don't understand what He is doing.
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Henry Jacobsen
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Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.
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Aristotle
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108 votes
Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.
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Proverb
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42 votes
Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
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Pearl S. Buck
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81 votes
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.
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American Proverb
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61 votes
Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
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Alexander Pope
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38 votes
Praising an honest person who doesn't deserve it, always wounds them.
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Nicholas Boileau
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71 votes
So long as you are praised think only that you are not yet on your own path but on that of another.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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31 votes
Some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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43 votes
Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
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60 votes
The best way to get praise is to die.
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Italian Proverb
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103 votes
The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working.
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Albert Einstein
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The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.
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Sir James M. Barrie
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133 votes
The simple act of playing positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.
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Thomas J. Peters
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62 votes
The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.
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James Russell Lowell
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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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Norman Vincent Peale
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73 votes
Their silence is praise enough.
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Terence
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There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.
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Owen Felltham
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58 votes
There is no praise to beat the sort you can put in your pocket.
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Moliere
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55 votes
There's not one wise man among twenty will praise himself.
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William Shakespeare
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36 votes
We increase whatever we praise. The whole creation responds to praise, and is glad.
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Charles Fillmore
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63 votes
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
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Samuel Goldwyn
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22 votes
When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
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Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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47 votes
You can handle people more successfully by enlisting their feelings than by convincing their reason.
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Paul P. Parker
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