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Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
Books - Reading
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise.
Praise
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.
Praise
Owen Felltham

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We increase whatever we praise. The whole creation responds to praise, and is glad.
Praise
Charles Fillmore

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Praise the sea; on shore remain.
Oceans
John Florio

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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
Books - Reading
Edward M. Forster

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The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.
Death and Dying
John W. Foster

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None are more haughty than a common place person raised to power.
Arrogance
French Proverb

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Fools 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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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun