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| Necessity may render a doubtful act innocent, but it cannot make it praiseworthy | | Joseph Joubert | |
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| Praise be to Allah, Who has given me in old age Ismail and Ishaq; most surely my Lord is the Hearer of prayer. (Abraham 14.39) | | Quran | |
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| Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard | | Aristotle | |
| Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit: we cannot flower and grow without it. | | Jess Lair | |
| Praise is not seemly in the mouth of a sinner, for it was not sent him of the Lord. | | Bible | |
| Praise is so pleasing to the mind of man that it is the original of almost all of our actions | | Samuel Johnson | |
| Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works. | | John Keats | |
| Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. | | Samuel Johnson | |
| Praises reap not! Joys laugh not! Sorrows weep not! | | William Blake | |
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| Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays, the pleasing game of interchanging praise. | | Oliver Wendell Holmes | |
| The advantage of doing one's praising to oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places | | Samuel Butler | |
| There are two modes of establishing our reputation: to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the former, because it will invariably be accompanied by the latter. | | Charles Caleb Colton | |
| There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket. | | Moliere | |
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| Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults. | | Socrates | |
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