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We begin to praise when we begin to see a thing needs our assistance.
Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.
I'm told we movie critics praise movies that are long and boring.
Praising an honest person who doesn't deserve it, always wounds them.
There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy
An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
There is no praise in being upright, where no one can, or tries to corrupt you.
It is ill to praise, and worse to blame, the thing which you do not understand.
He who boasts of his pedigree praises that which does not belong to him.
A little praise goes a great ways.
Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.
Your praises will become your wages.
Praise the Sea, but keepe on land.
An honest Man will receive neither Money nor Praise that is not his due.
Those who praise themselves do not prevail.
A "classic" is a book that everybody praises but nobody has read
I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly.
Xenophon says that there is no sound more pleasing than one's own praises.
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.
Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.
Fondly we think we honor merit then, when we but praise ourselves in other men.
There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy.
You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.
True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.
Your work should be in praise of what you love.
Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
I will praise any man that will praise me.
Praise day at night, and life at the end.
He does not praise himself - yet he is respectable.
I like to praise and reward in a loud voice and to scold in a whisper.
To praise great actions is in some sense to share them.
One is led astray alike by sympathy and coldness, by praise and by blame
It's the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
Some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise.
None can be pleased without praise, and few can be praised without falsehood.
The present eye praises the present object.
Praise none too much, for all are fickle.
There are reproaches which praise, and praises which defame.
We thirst for approbation, yet cannot forgive the approver.
Oh, flatter me; for love delights in praises.
To write a verse or two is all the praise That I can raise.
Everyone praises his heart, none dare praise their understanding.
Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove.
Old praise dies, unlesse you feede it. [Old praise dies unless you feed it.]
We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us.
Which can say more than this rich praise, that you alone are you?
Criticism sometimes is really praise, and praise sometimes slander.
We do not like to praise, and seldom praise anyone without self-interest.
We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves.