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George M. Adams
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To praise is an investment in happiness.
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Leonard Cohen
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I know that there is an eye that watches all of us. There is a judgment that weighs everything we do. And before this great force, which is greater than any government, I stand in awe and I kneel in respect. And it is to this great judgment that I dedica
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Karl Kraus
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Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.
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Cyril Connolly
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http://www.webheights.net/speakingcohen/denver.htm
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H Hahn Blavatsky
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Shun praise. Praise leads to self-delusion. Thy body is not Self, thyself is in itself without a body, and either praise or blame affects it not.
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Lavina Christensen Fugal
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Love your children with all your hearts, love them enough to discipline them before it is too late. ... Praise them for important things, even if you have to stretch them a bit. Praise them a lot. They live on it like bread and butter and they need it more than bread and butter.
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Roger Anderson
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Let us be very careful not to fall into the trap of the world. The world views things only relative to man and to self. The Word of God views things relative to the Father, Son, and Spirit. Mankind is not the center of all things. No matter how great anyone's name might become, it is still far behind His. Our name comes from His life the name of our Lord comes from the resurrection--the event unique to Him. The world has a problem it seeks to honor, uphold, exonerate and generally praise itself. Our place and the place of the entire world system is to praise and exalt God. When people of the Bible caught a glimpse of Him, their lives were changed. Perhaps our lives remain stagnate because we do not spend enough time looking at Him.
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Greek Proverb
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Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to praise.
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Xenophon
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The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
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George M. Adams
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To praise is an investment in happiness.
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W. Somerset Maugham
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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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Real Live Preacher
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Im searching through all that has ever been hoped, in praise of what can never be known.
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Vince Lombardi
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Praise in public criticize in private.
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J. B. Yeats
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Always when I see a man fond of praise I always think it is because he is an affectionate man craving for affection.
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Andr Maurois
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Modesty and unselfishness--these are the virtues which men praise--and pass by.
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Noel Coward
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I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.
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Mark Twain
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A classic is a book which people praise and don't read.
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Karl Kraus
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He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.
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Kahlil Gibran
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The best of men is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him.
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Edith Sitwell
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My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.
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Bertrand Russell
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So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
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Jesse Lair
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Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit we cannot flower and grow without it.
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Socrates
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Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
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W. Somerset Maugham
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It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.
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POPE: _Iliad,_ Bk. x., Line 293.
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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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Michel de Montaigne
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Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose if you belittle yourself, you are believed if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved.
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Saskya Pandita
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Not to be cheered by praise, Not to be grieved by blame, But to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers Are the characteristics of an excellent man.
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W. Somerset Maugham
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I do not confer praise or blame I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the centre of the world.
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Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
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Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.
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Seneca
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Be not too hasty either with praise or blame speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
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Robert William Service
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Some praise the Lord for Light,
The living spark;
I thank God for the Night
The healing dark.
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Thucyclides
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Those who really deserve praise are the people who, while human enough to enjoy power, nevertheless pay more attention to justice than they are compelled to do by their situation.
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POPE: _E. on Criticism,_ Pt. iii., Line 23.
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Fear not the anger of the wise to raise; Those best can bear reproof who merit praise.
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Thomas John Watson, Sr.
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Praising God is one of the highest and purest acts of religion. In prayer we act like men in praise we act like angels.
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Alec Waugh
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A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.
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POPE: _E. on Criticism,_ Pt. ii., Line 274.
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Be thou the first true merit to befriend; His praise is lost, who stays till all commend.
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Robert Bridges
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I love all beauteous things, I seek and adore them God hath no better praise, And man in his hasty days Is honored for them.
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John L. Casteel
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One of the self-authenticating truths which we come at last to acknowledge is this strange fact that we know that for the evil in our lives we ourselves are responsible, but for the good God alone deserves the praise.
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Jeanne-Marie Roland
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It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth.
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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.
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Alexander Osborn
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Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud. Any of us put out more and better ideas if our efforts are truly appreciated.
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John Kenneth Galbraith
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Washington is a place where people praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations.
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William Arthur Ward
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Blessed is he who has learned To admire but not envy, To follow but not imitate, To praise but not flatter, And to lead but not manipulate.
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POPE: _Prologue to the Satires,_ Line 201.
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Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer.
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John Updike
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The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.
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William Shakespeare
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Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them The good is oft interred with their bones.
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SHAKS.: _M. of Venice,_ Act v., Sc. 1.
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The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren. How many things by season season'd are To their right praise, and true perfection!
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MILTON: _Par. Regained,_ Bk. iii., Line 49.
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And what the people but a herd confus'd, A miscellaneous rabble, who extol Things vulgar, and, well weigh'd, scarce worth the praise?
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RICHARD BAXTER: _Love Breathing Thanks and Praise._
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I preached as never sure to preach again, And as a dying man to dying men.
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GAY: _Fables,_ Pt. i., Fable 44.
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Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise, For envy is a kind of praise.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
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There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.
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Siddha Nagarjuna
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Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.
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Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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We like to praise birds for flying. But how much of it is actually flying, and how much of it is just sort of coasting from the previous flap
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Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the insidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood.
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Praise youth and it will prosper.
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Praise the bridge that carried you over.
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'And if you say two words in my praise..?", said the Cat
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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.
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I???m searching through all that has ever been hoped, in praise of what can never be known.
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Their silence is sufficient praise.
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It is usually best to be generous with praise, but cautious with criticism.
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Praise the lord and pass the ammunition.
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Praise will come to those whose kindness leaves you without debt.
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Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
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He only profits from praise who values criticism.
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You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.
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Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.
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Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these
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I can take any amount of criticism as long as I can consider it unqualified praise.
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Admonish thy friends in secret, praise them openly.
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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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Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit: we cannot flower and grow without it.
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Such praise coming from so degraded a source, was degrading to me, its recipient.
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It is a sign of a creeping inner death when we no longer can praise the living.
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Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
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Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others.
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Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain that the virtuous.
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Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - and we will make the goal.
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Not to be cheered by praise,
Not to be grieved by blame,
But to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers
Are the characteristics of an excellent man.
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I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it.
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A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.
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Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
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Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
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Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.
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Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough; and we receive it as a favor; but when it comes in great quantities, we regard it only as a debt, which nothing but our merit could extort.
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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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Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones.
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"Classic: A book which people praise and don't read." - Mark Twain
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Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that money cannot buy; therefore value it, and be thankful for it.
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"Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition..."
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"I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him." - Shakespeare
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"That is high praise from a Vulcan." -- Picard
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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.
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Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts:
Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured
Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed
By hymns of praise. From him alone of all
The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.
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"I come to seize your berry, not to praise it."
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Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.
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Neither praise nor blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to proscribe, and honestly to award - these are the true aims and duties of criticism.
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Some people get angry because God put thorns on roses, while others praise him for putting roses among thorns.
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I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.
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