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Praised be the Lord, who has redeemed me from myself. Votes: 3

Teresa of Avila

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Praised be the fathomless universe, for life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious. Votes: 3

Walt Whitman

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He who has always spared himself much will in the end become sickly of so much consideration. Praised be what hardens! Votes: 3

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Praised be the good willing women who understand and take part in the fun--the body is an exacting beater, and even the heart is made of flesh. Votes: 3

Franz Grillparzer

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But was there ever dog that praised his fleas? Votes: 1

William Butler Yeats

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I do believe in praising that which deserves to be praised. Votes: 1

Dean Smith

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It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy. Votes: 1

Philip Sidney

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I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time. Votes: 1

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Human rights are praised more than ever - and violated as much as ever. Votes: 1

Anna Lindh

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Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair. Votes: 1

William Shakespeare

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God was treated like this powerful, erratic, rather punitive father who has to be pacified and praised. You know, flattered. Votes: 1

John Cleese

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If to the viewer's eyes, my world appears less beautiful than his, I'm to be pitied and the viewer praised. Votes: 1

Rockwell Kent

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If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it. Votes: 1

Socrates

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All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little. Votes: 1

Oliver Goldsmith

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Dogs notice, they share, they draw conclusions, they like it when they're able to be of service and are touchingly grateful when they're praised. Votes: 1

Roger Ebert

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I like generals. I like Napoleon. I like strategy. The majority of them are praised for mass destruction, but it's exciting to see how it comes to the mind mentally. Votes: 1

Curtis Jackson

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A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man. Votes: 1

John Adams

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If anything, if you can get somebody interested in something and get them excited, that's great. You should be praised for having opened the debate and having asked the right questions. Votes: 1

Oliver Stone

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So many have come to me that I might serve them, leaving me no time to think of myself. However, I assure you that I do feel deep down within me, God be praised. Votes: 1

Saint Francis de Sales

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No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will. Votes: 1

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated. Votes: 1

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy. Votes: 1

Bertrand Russell

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There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter. Votes: 1

Charles Caleb Colton

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South Koreans who have seen and praised the mass games should remember the hardship of tearful children. Teachers drive them hard with curses and orders to repeat and repeat. When the children return home in the evening, they can hardly walk. Votes: 1

Kim Il-sung

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I've praised Obama's record on same-sex equality as enthusiastically as anyone: it's one area where his record has been impressive. I understand, and have expressed, the emotional importance for LGBT Americans of his marriage announcement as well as its political significance. Votes: 1

Glenn Greenwald

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The names of Dingane and Bambata, Hintsa and Makana, Squngthi and Dalasile, Moshoeshoe and Sekhukhuni, were praised as the glory of the entire African nation. I hoped then that life might offer me the opportunity to serve my people and make my own humble contribution to their freedom struggle. Votes: 1

Nelson Mandela

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The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes. Votes: 1

Niccolo Machiavelli

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In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we 'battle' cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation. If we are fortunate, we 'beat' the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having 'succumbed after a long battle.' Votes: 1

Abraham Verghese

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Some of the companies we helped start are names you know. An office supply company called Staples - where I'm pleased to see the Obama campaign has been shopping; The Sports Authority, which became a favorite of my sons. We started an early childhood learning center called Bright Horizons that First Lady Michelle Obama rightly praised. Votes: 1

Mitt Romney

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I have done everything I have ever wanted to do. I have swum with tiger sharks, been charged by lions and elephants. I have been shot three times, chased by crocodiles and, God be praised, I've made enough money that I can continue to do all the things I want to for as long as I am able. Votes: 1

Wilbur Smith

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People flourish if they're praised. Votes: 0

Richard Branson

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Good things should be praised. Votes: 0

William Shakespeare

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Integrity is praised, and starves. Votes: 0

Juvenal

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Honesty's praised, then left to freeze. Votes: 0

Juvenal

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The most-praised generation goes to work Votes: 0

Jeffrey Zaslow

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Usually we praise only to be praised. Votes: 0

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Nobody gets praised for the right reasons. Votes: 0

Diana Wynne Jones

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He is praised by some, blamed by others. Votes: 0

Horace

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Honesty is praised and left in the cold. Votes: 0

Juvenal

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Now God be praised, I will die in peace. Votes: 0

James Wolfe

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Success causes us to be more praised than known. Votes: 0

Philibert Joseph Roux

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Nowhere in the Gospels is intelligence praised as a virtue. Votes: 0

Marilyn Manson

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A man--be the heavens ever praised!--is sufficient for himself. Votes: 0

Thomas Carlyle

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Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Votes: 0

John C. Maxwell

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Peace and quiet are preferred. Victory should not be praised. Votes: 0

Laozi

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God is the one to be praised, not our transformation. Votes: 0

Tullian Tchividjian

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Integrity is praised and then left out in the cold. Votes: 0

Junius

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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice. Votes: 0

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Man only blames himself in order that he may be praised. Votes: 0

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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No man has ever praised to persons equally-and pleased them both. Votes: 0

Arthur Helps

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None of us are so much praised or censured as we think. Votes: 0

Charles Caleb Colton

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Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round. Votes: 0

Edmund Waller

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What we do is never understood, but always merely praised or blamed. Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche

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I like to here my own sex praised but not the other. Votes: 0

Marjorie Fleming

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Neither worse then or better is a thing made by being praised. Votes: 0

Marcus Aurelius

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And lips say God be pitiful, who never said, God be praised. Votes: 0

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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A film that aims low should not be praised for hitting that target. Votes: 0

Gene Siskel

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None can be pleased without praise, and few can be praised without falsehood. Votes: 0

Samuel Johnson

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I was praised in the U.S. and heavily, brutally criticized in France. Votes: 0

Christine Lagarde

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A legendary horse is praised not for its strength, but for its Integrity. Votes: 0

Confucius

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I praised those who find within themselves their own song to create hope. Votes: 0

Lights

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We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves. Votes: 0

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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no one wants to be praised for possibilities when one has submitted performances. Votes: 0

Sylvia Townsend Warner

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For the good, when praised, feel something of disgust, if to excess commended. Votes: 0

Euripides

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Truly, whoever possesses little is that much less possessed: praised be a little poverty! Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche

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God created the world to be praised on the subtle nature of his existence. Votes: 0

Kedar Joshi

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When you're a monster, you are thanked and praised for not being a monster. Votes: 0

Kristin Cashore

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No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked. Votes: 0

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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London keeps me grounded. We don't get praised every time we open our gobs there. Votes: 0

Miranda Richardson

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The greatest tragedy that can befall a poet is to be praised by being misunderstood. Votes: 0

Pattiann Rogers

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You great benefactors, sprinkle our society with thankfulness. For your own gifts, make yourselves praised: Votes: 0

William Shakespeare

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My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues. Votes: 0

Khalil Gibran

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It is awkward to listen to oneself being praised, and I was always a shy man. Votes: 0

H. Rider Haggard

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Oasis are not just influenced by the Beatles; they actually take stuff. Then they get praised. Votes: 0

Lenny Kravitz

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When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time. Votes: 0

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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We would worry less if we praised more. Thanksgiving is the enemy of discontent and dissatisfaction. Votes: 0

Henry Allen Ironside

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People would rather be praised than criticized but the later may help us make more progress. Votes: 0

Sterling W Sill

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Good books get praised, bad books get praised. Good books get ignored, bad books get ignored Votes: 0

Vikram

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Be praised, My Lord, through Sister Water; she is very useful, and humble, and precious, and pure. Votes: 0

Francis of Assisi

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Perhaps every time anyone is praised it means that someone else somewhere is going to be ignored Votes: 0

Margaret Mahy

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If we complained less, and praised more, we should be happier, and God would be more glorified. Votes: 0

Charles Spurgeon

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Why in God's name should a God be praised if he is only performing his Godly function? Votes: 0

Robert Sheckley

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Modesty in human beings is praised because it is not a matter of nature, but of will. Votes: 0

Lactantius

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God is to be praised with the voice, and the heart should go therewith in holy exultation. Votes: 0

Charles Spurgeon

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The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms. Votes: 0

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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There are more useful systems developed in languages deemed awful than in languages praised for being beautiful--many more. Votes: 0

Bjarne Stroustrup

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God is most beautifully praised when His people hear His Word, love His Word, and obey His Word. Votes: 0

Albert Mohler

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For if good were not praised more than ill, None would chuse goodness of his own free will. Votes: 0

Edmund Spenser

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Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised Votes: 0

Bible

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Be praised, my Lord, through those who forgive for love of you; through those who endure sickness and trial. Votes: 0

Francis of Assisi

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One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood. Votes: 0

E. M. Forster

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Shakespeare has been praised in English more than anything mortal except poetry itself. Fame exhausts thought in his eulogy. Votes: 0

George Edward Woodberry

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If you live long enough, you get accused of things you never did and praised for virtues you never had. Votes: 0

I. F. Stone

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As the proverb says, "a good beginning is half the business" and "to have begun well" is praised by all. Votes: 0

Plato

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There are two modes of establishing our reputation; to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. Votes: 0

Charles Caleb Colton

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When Hillary Clinton deserved to be praised, I praised her. When Donald Trump did, as well, I did that, too. Votes: 0

Joe Scarborough

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I'm not going to lie - it's insulting to be praised for being a 'woman' with 'no college degree.' Votes: 0

Sophia Amoruso

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The fact that I'm getting appreciated and praised alone is a crazy moment because I never thought it would happen. Votes: 0

Alessia Cara

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One thing scientists have discovered is that often-praised children become more intelligent than often-blamed ones. There's a creative element in praise. Votes: 0

Thomas Dreier

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One who is wise and disciplined, always kind and intelligent, humble and free from pride. One like this will be praised. Votes: 0

Gautama Buddha

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Forgiveness is praised by the Christian and the Vaishnava, but for me, I ask, "What have I to forgive and whom?" Votes: 0

Sri Aurobindo

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A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person Votes: 0

Quintilian

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Some people have food, but no appetite; others have an appetite, but no food. I have both. The Lord be praised. Votes: 0

Oliver Cromwell

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People seem to forget that Saddam was the only leader in the world who praised the attacks of 9/11 as a good thing. Votes: 0

Paul Wolfowitz

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Some of the writers I've praised are Sara Paretsky, Val McDermid, Elisabeth George and Minette Walters. Strangely enough, almost all are women. Votes: 0

Stieg Larsson

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The Democrats can engage in the most reprehensible, mean-spirited, vile, vicious verbal attacks known in politics, and they get praised for it. Votes: 0

Rush Limbaugh

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Being generous and kindly in speech, doing a good turn for others, and treating all alike. One like this will be praised. Votes: 0

Gautama Buddha

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We are praised or blamed, as the one or the other may be expedient, for displaying to advantage our power of discernment. Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche

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The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers. Votes: 0

Luc de Clapiers

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If anything I was probably loved and praised too much as a child. I think that's why I can't accept any compliments. Votes: 0

Max Winkler

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I made friends with a lot of those who could have criticized me in print and who didn't, who praised me instead. Votes: 0

Charles Kuralt

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He that shall peruse the political pamphlets of any past reign will wonder why they were so eagerly read, or so loudly praised. Votes: 0

Samuel Johnson

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I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because it's repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things. Votes: 0

Fiona Shaw

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Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: But a woman who fears the Lord,She shall be praised.(Proverbs 31:30 Modern King James Version) Votes: 0

Anonymous

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I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because its repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things. Votes: 0

Fiona Shaw

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At the end of meditation period we always bow and we touch our head to the floor and say "Buddha's name be praised." Votes: 0

Frederick Lenz

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Be praised, O my Lord by Brother Wind, By air and cloud and every clime To whom Thou givest sustenance unto their kind. Votes: 0

Francis of Assisi

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I am more or less happy when being praised, not very comfortable when being abused, but I have moments of uneasiness when being explained. Votes: 0

Arthur Balfour

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Rising early and scorning laziness, remaining calm in time of strife, faultless in conduct and clever in actions. One like this will be praised. Votes: 0

Gautama Buddha

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Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself. Votes: 0

J. B. Priestley

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The supreme rulers are hardly known by their subjects. The lesser are loved and praised. The even lesser are feared. The least are despised. Votes: 0

Laozi

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It may be observed, that very polished languages, and such as are praised for their superior clearness and perspicuity, are generally deficient in strength. Votes: 0

Edmund Burke

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If both factions, or neither, shall abuse you, you will probably be about right. Beware of being assailed by one and praised by the other. Votes: 0

Abraham Lincoln

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I think even though he [Nelson Mandela] was feted and praised as he was, he always was at pains to say, I'm a human being. Votes: 0

Kumi Naidoo

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In religion, it is not the sycophants or those who cling most faithfully to the status quo who are ultimately praised. It is the insurgents. Votes: 0

Rollo May

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Jesus praised faith and trust " even more than love. It takes a foundational trust to fall, or to fail, and not to fall apart. Votes: 0

Richard Rohr

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Being able to make friends and keep them, welcoming others and sharing with them, a guide, philosopher and friend. One like this will be praised. Votes: 0

Gautama Buddha

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I wanted everything. What could you not want when you are brown and Indian-looking in a society in which the white aesthetic is praised as acceptable? Votes: 0

Ana Castillo

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Why is it that Christian activists are regularly pilloried for basing social standards on biblical texts while liberals are actually praised for mixing religion and politics? Votes: 0

Gary DeMar

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I finished 'Heartsick' with my daughter asleep in her bassinet by my desk, a feat that any new mother will tell you cannot be sufficiently praised. Votes: 0

Chelsea Cain

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Be Thou praised, my Lord, of our Sister Mother Earth, which sustains and hath us in rule, and produces divers fruits with coloured flowers and herbs. Votes: 0

Francis of Assisi

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Blessed the one who has become a good spiritual net and caught many for the good Lord, such a one will greatly praised by the Lord. Votes: 0

Ephrem the Syrian

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It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature. Votes: 0

Ben Jonson

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We often make use of envenomed praise, that reveals on the rebound, as it were, defects in those praised which we dare not exposeany other way. Votes: 0

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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When we are dead we are praised by those who survive us, though we frequently have no other merit than that of being no longer alive. Votes: 0

Jean de la Bruyere

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Donald Trump, again and again, has praised Vladimir Putin and it's clear that he has business dealings with Russian oligarchs who are very connected to Putin. Votes: 0

Tim Kaine

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To be prejudiced is always to be weak; yet there are prejudices so near to laudable that they have been often praised and are always pardoned. Votes: 0

Samuel Johnson

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William Henry Flower the Anglican too praised evolution as a cleansing solvent, dissolving the dross which had 'encrusted' Christianity 'in the days of ignorance and superstition'. Votes: 0

Adrian Desmond

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Politics is too often regarded as a poor relation, inherently dependent and subsidiary; it is rarely praised as something with a life and character of its own. Votes: 0

Bernard Crick

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God wants to be praised for nourishing and cherishing, for God cherishes all creatures. God is not only the creator, but is also the sustainer and nourisher. Votes: 0

Martin Luther

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It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare attainment. Votes: 0

Bernard of Clairvaux

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I may be wrong, but it seems rare in our age to find a widely praised person whose own mouth is not the source of that praise. Votes: 0

Giacomo Leopardi

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We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess. Votes: 0

Mark Twain

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My mother was a very difficult woman to please. She was the sort of woman who thought that if I were praised I would get above myself. Votes: 0

Mem Fox

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Almost anything that can be praised or advocated has been put to some disgusting use. There is no principle, however immaculate, that has not had its compromising manipulator. Votes: 0

Wyndham Lewis

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Sometimes when you're praised about something, sometimes it's deserved, and sometimes it's not deserved. Same thing with criticism. Sometimes the criticism is deserved, and sometimes it's not deserved. Votes: 0

LaDainian Tomlinson

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Duty is what goes most against the grain, because in doing that we do only what we are strictly obliged to, and are seldom much praised for it. Votes: 0

Jean de la Bruyere

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I am pleased to be praised by a man so praised as you, father. [Words used by Hector.] [Lat., Laetus sum Laudari me abs te, pater, laudato viro.] Votes: 0

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Vanity and narcissism " the compulsive need to be admired and praised " undermine one's courage, for one then fights on someone else's conviction rather than one's own. Votes: 0

Rollo May

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Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher. Votes: 0

Dan Simmons

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Writing, Im convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher. Votes: 0

Dan Simmons

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The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that, perhaps, is what makes him different from others. Votes: 0

Leo Rosten

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Compromise to please others is not as good as integrity that annoys others. Rather than be praised without being good, it is better to be slandered without being bad. Votes: 0

Zicheng Hong

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If each of us were to confess his most secret desire, the one that inspires all his plans, all his actions, he would say: "I want to be praised." Votes: 0

Emile M. Cioran

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I do not doubt that we would become more useful if we praised God more, and others would join us, for they would see that God has blessed us. Votes: 0

Charles Spurgeon

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All is one, all is different. How many natures exist in man? How many vocations? And by what chance does each man ordinarily choose what he has heard praised? Votes: 0

Blaise Pascal

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I know a man who, when he saw a woman of striking beauty, praised the Creator for her. The sight of her lit within him the love of God. Votes: 0

John Climacus

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Men are too unstable to be just; they are crabbed because they have not passed water at the usual time, or testy because they have not been stroked or praised. Votes: 0

Edward Dahlberg

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You are damned and praised, or encouraged or discouraged by those who listen to you, and those who come to applaud you. And to me, those people are very important. Votes: 0

Miriam Makeba

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When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that day I made nothing new. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A search of one's life and soul will reveal the hand of God. The outpouring of his blessings come with our afflictions, not in spite of them. Afflictions be praised! Votes: 0

Elaine A. Cannon

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Steve's sales pitch on the NeXT operating system was dazzling," according to Amelio. " He praised the virtues and strengths as though he were describing a performance of Oliver as Macbeth. Votes: 0

Walter Isaacson

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I have many times been praised for my lack of animosity towards the Germans. It's not a philosophical virtue. It's a habit of having my second reactions before the first. Votes: 0

Primo Levi

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A life all turbulence and noise may seem To him that leads it wise and to be praised, But wisdom is a pearl with most success Sought in still waters. Votes: 0

William Cowper

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The very things I used to be told off for - daydreaming, exaggerating, making mistakes, wild guessing, contradicting, spying, being obsessive, being reckless - for these, suddenly, I am being praised. Votes: 0

Selima Hill

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As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, When the hot water gives out or goes tepid, So is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion, O my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady. Votes: 0

Ezra Pound

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I don't have any terrific self-esteem issues but I do sometimes realise I've been too lucky and that I'm over-praised. It makes me nervous. I have this sense of being overrated. Votes: 0

Christopher Hitchens

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I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me. Votes: 0

Billy Joel

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When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination. Votes: 0

Ahmet Zappa

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In the Golden Age, Rulers were unknown. In the following age Rulers were loved and praised. Next came the age When rulers were feared. Finally the age When rulers are hated. Votes: 0

Laozi

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We think of ourselves as our titles or our jobs or our position in a family. We depend on being praised by others. But something happens when that praise is undermined. Votes: 0

Sharon Salzberg

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The trust that I once built has been betrayed. But I'd rather live tellin' the truth and be judged for my mistakes, than falsely held up, given props, loved and praised. Votes: 0

Macklemore

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A perfect work of art is not the one that has no mistakes. It is the one people will like. Creation is not perfect but god is praised for having created it Votes: 0

Bangambiki Habyarimana

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There is nothing which power cannot believe of itself, when it is praised as equal to the gods. [Lat., Nihil est quod credere de se Non possit, quum laudatur dis aequa potestas.] Votes: 0

Juvenal

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In general I do not draw well with literary men -- not that I dislike them but I never know what to say to them after I have praised their last publication. Votes: 0

Lord Byron

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Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less. Votes: 0

Oscar Wilde

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Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; and when they hear us praised by others, will ascribe it to sinister and interested motives if they can. Votes: 0

Charles Caleb Colton

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Does Christ get a good reputation because of the way we live? Is the excellence of Christ displayed in our lives? That should matter to us, not whether we ourselves are praised. Votes: 0

John Piper

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Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship and when they hear us praised by others, will ascribe it to sinister and interested motives if they can. Votes: 0

Charles Caleb Colton

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Youth is like spring, an over praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits. Votes: 0

Samuel Butler

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Remember the Dreamers whose patriotism was praised when the Democratic House passed, and the Senate filibustered - the DREAM Act in 2010? Washington promised a path to citizenship, not just a roadblock to deportation. Votes: 0

Christine Pelosi

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Everyone should be praised by the lips of his neighbor, and not by his own mouth. Everyone should be commended by the work he has done, not by what he wanted to do. Votes: 0

Mike Aquilina

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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has been awarded the highest rank in the country's military. The decision was praised by everyone from Parliamentary leader Kim Jong Un to opposition leader Kim Jong Un. Votes: 0

Conan O'Brien

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And everybody praised the Duke Who this great fight did win. "But what good came of it at last?" Quoth little Peterkin. "Why, that I cannot tell," said he, "But 'twas a famous victory." Votes: 0

Robert Southey

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If the tide of defamation and abuse shall turn, and my administration come to be praised, future Vice-Presidents who may succeed to the Presidency may feel some slight encouragement to pursue an independent course. Votes: 0

John Tyler

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Many of Bush's defenders have praised him for keeping the country safe since Sept. 11, 2001. He deserves that praise, and I'm perfectly happy to defend most of his surveillance, interrogation and counterterrorism policies against his critics. Votes: 0

Bill Kristol

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Take like, say, Obama, he's called "liberal" and he's praised for his "principled objection to the Iraq war". What was his "principled objection"? He says it was a "strategic blunder," like Nazi generals after Stalingrad. Votes: 0

Noam Chomsky

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The novels that get praised in the NY Review of Books aren't worth reading. Ninety-seven percent of science fiction is adolescent rubbish, but good science fiction is the best and only literature of our times. Votes: 0

Robert Anton Wilson

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A person of riyaa (showing off) has three characteristics : He is lazy when alone, energetic when with others, and increases in his actions when he is praised while decreasing in them when he is criticized. Votes: 0

Ali ibn Abi Talib

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He who praises another enriches himself far more than he does the one praised. To praise is an investment in happiness. The poorest human being has something to give that the richest could not buy. Votes: 0

George Madison Adams

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Good culture is born of a good disposition; and since the cause is more to be praised than the effect, I will rather praise a good disposition without culture, than good culture without the disposition. Votes: 0

Leonardo da Vinci

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It gives me no joy to be praised at the expense of a better artist, by someone who does not know the difference or who thinks me too vain to be aware of it myself. Votes: 0

Mary Renault

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The shame that comes to us as we see ourselves praised when we are unworthy of it often gives us the occasion to accomplish things that we might never have achieved without such undeserved praise. Votes: 0

Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de ...

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If you are well known at something else, you get points for doing stuff which lots of other people do, and much more, and they don't get any points at all. You get over-praised, over-credited. Votes: 0

Tom Stoppard

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Fame is a lot of fun, but it's not interesting. I loved being noticed and praised, even the banquets. But they didn't have anything that I wanted. After about six months, I found it boring. Votes: 0

Jack Gilbert

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In the highest antiquity, the people did not know that there were rulers. In the next age they loved them and praised them. In the next they feared them; in the next they despised them. Votes: 0

Laozi

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If thy words are wise, they will not seem so to the foolish: if they are deep the shallow will not appreciate them. Think not highly of thyself, then, when thou art praised by many. Votes: 0

John Lancaster Spalding

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William Kristol

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Do I need to be liked? Absolutely not. I like to be liked. I enjoy being liked. I have to be liked. But it's not like a compulsive need to be liked. Like my need to be praised.

Michael Scott

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I've had a lot of things rendered as not being effective or as some indication of my lack of sanity, only to be praised ten, fifteen, twenty years later for what I did once in this overt consciousness.

Billy Corgan

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Though fraud in all other actions be odious, yet in matters of war it is laudable and glorious, and he who overcomes his enemies by stratagem is as much to be praised as he who overcomes them by force.

Niccolo Machiavelli

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Only those beneath me can envy or hate me. I have never been envied nor hated; I am above no one. Only those above me can praise or belittle me. I have never been praised nor belittled; I am below no one.

Khalil Gibran

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[The South] is ****ed for its virtues and praised for its faults, and there are those who wish its annihilation. But most revealing of all is the fear that it gestates the revolutionary impulse of our future.

Richard M. Weaver

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If you're a nobody, if your work has no impact, then it deserves to be praised. If, however, you climb out of that state of mediocrity and are a success, then your defying 'the law' and deserve to be punished.

Paulo Coelho

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For telling a good and incisive religious joke, you should be praised. For telling a bad one, you should be ridiculed and reviled. The idea that you could be prosecuted for the telling of either is quite fantastic.

Rowan Atkinson

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The man who is praised by others is regarded as worthy though he may be really void of all merit. But the man who sings his own praises becomes disgraced though he should be Indra, the possessor of all excellencies.

Chanakya

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Praise is flattery, artful, hidden, delicate, which gratifies differently him who praises and him who is praised. The one takes it as the reward of merit, the other bestows it to show his impartiality and knowledge.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Although deceit is detestable in all other things, yet in the conduct of war it is laudable and honorable; and a commander who vanquishes an enemy by stratagem is equally praised with one who gains victory by force.

Niccolo Machiavelli

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For men can endure to hear others praised only so long as they can severally persuade themselves of their own ability to equal the actions recounted: when this point is passed, envy comes in and with it incredulity.

Thucydides

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Dare to do something worth of exile and prison if you mean to be anybody. Virtue is praised and left to freeze. [Lat., Aude aliquid brevibus Gyaris et carcere dignum Si vis esse aliquis. Probitas laudatur et alget.]

Juvenal

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Even great men are only truly recognized and honored once they are dead. Why? Because those who praise them need to feel themselves somehow superior to the person praised, they need to feel they are making some concession.

Clarice Lispector

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Blessed is the servant who esteems himself no more highly when he is praised and exalted by people than when he is considered worthless, foolish, and to be despised; since what a man is before God, that he is and nothing more.

Francis of Assisi

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And truly it is a very natural and ordinary thing to desire to acquire, and always, when men do it who can, they will be praised or not blamed; but when they cannot, and wish to do it anyway, here lies the error and the blame.

Niccolo Machiavelli

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Our poor eyes were so enriched as to behold, and our low hearts so exalted as to love, a maid who is such, that as the greatest thing the world can show is her beauty, so the least thing that may be praised in her is her beauty.

Philip Sidney

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History has tongues Has angels has guns has saved has praised Today proclaims Achievements of her exiles long returned Now no more rootless, for whom her printed page Glazes their bruised waste years in one Balancing present sky.

Stephen Spender

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It is a mystery to me how a theologian can be praised for having brought himself to disbelieve dogmas. I've always thought that those who have brought themselves to believe in dogmas merit the true recognition owing a heroic deed.

Karl Kraus

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When you know for yourselves, 'These things are wholesome; these things are blameless; these things are praised by the wise; these things, if undertaken and practiced, lead to welfare and happiness,' then you should engage in them.

Gautama Buddha

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If men are paid/praised more than women for the same work than it always pays to allow the man to have more freedom to pour himself into his work - think of athletes, actors over the age of 28, lawyers, accountants, college deans...

Julianna Baggott

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Short-lived are both the praiser and the praised, and rememberer and the remembered: and all this in a nook of this part of the world; and not even here do all agree, no, not any one with himself: and the whole earth too is a point.

Marcus Aurelius

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Friendship and domestic happiness are continually praised; yet how little is there of either in the world, because it requires more cultivation of mind to keep awake affection, even in our own hearts, than the common run of people suppose.

Mary Wollstonecraft

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Mindfulness, though so highly praised and capable of such great achievements, is not at all a "mystical" state, beyond the ken and reach of the average person. It is, on the contrary, something quite simple and common, and very familiar to us.

Nyanaponika Thera

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"There is no God," the foolish saith, But none, "There is no sorrow." And nature oft the cry of faith In bitter need will borrow: Eyes which the preacher could not school, By wayside graves are raised; And lips say, "God be pitiful," Who ne'er said, "God be praised."

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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The government of freemen is nobler and implies more virtue than despotic government. Neither is a city to be deemed happy or a legislator to be praised because he trains his citizens to conquer and obtain dominion over their neighbors, for there is great evil in this.

Aristotle

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It is pathetic to observe how lowly the motives are that religion, even the highest, attributes to the deity... To be given the best morsel, to be remembered, to be praised, to be obeyed blindly and punctiliously - these have been thought points of honor with the gods.

George Santayana

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Hussein praised his sons for putting up a brave fight, noting that U.S. forces had surrounded their compound with advanced weaponry, ground troops and warplanes. In case that didn't work, U.S. forces were prepared to tell Janet Reno that a small Cuban boy was inside the house.

Ann Coulter

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Nonconformity is an empty goal, and rebellion against prevailing opinion merely because it is prevailing should no more be praised than acquiescence to it. Indeed, it is often a mask for cowardice, and few are more pathetic than those who flaunt outer differences to expiate their inner surrender.

William H. Whyte

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There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

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