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  • To praise one thing is not to damn another.

    Praise   Damn   One Thing  
    Joanne Greenberg (2009). “I Never Promised You a Rose Garden: A Novel”, p.133, Macmillan
  • I, painting from myself and to myself, Know what I do, am unmoved by men's blame Or their praise either.

    Acceptance   Men   Blame  
    "My Last Duchess and Other Poems".
  • We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

    Anger   Men   Praise  
    Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.99, Wordsworth Editions
  • The praises of others may be of use in teaching us, not what we are, but what we ought to be.

    Teaching   Use   May  
    Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare, Edward Hayes Plumptre (1871). “Guesses at Truth”, p.491
  • in the nineteenth year and the eleventh month speak your tattered Kaddish for all suicides: Praise to life though it crumbled in like a tunnel on ones we knew and loved Praise to life though its windows blew shut on the breathing-room of ones we knew and loved Praise to life though ones we knew and loved loved it badly, too well, and not enough Praise to life though it tightened like a knot on the hearts of ones we thought we knew loved us Praise to life giving room and reason to ones we knew and loved who felt unpraisable. Praise to them, how they loved it, when they could.

    Suicide   Heart   Years  
  • Our griefs cannot mar the melody of our praise, we reckon them to be the bass part of our life's song, 'He hath done great things for us, whereof we are glad.'

    Song   Grief   Mars  
    Charles Spurgeon (2011). “Strengthen My Spirit”, p.153, Barbour Publishing
  • There's nothing worse than someone coming up to me and going Oh God, I really love your hair.

    Love You   Hair   Praise  
  • Don't let yourself forget that God's grace rewards not only those who never slip, but also those who bend and fall. So sing! The song of rejoicing softens hard hearts. It makes tears of godly sorrow flow from them. Singing summons the Holy Spirit. Happy praises offered in simplicity and love lead the faithful to complete harmony, without discord. Don't stop singing.

    Song   Fall   Heart  
  • You tend to feel very hurt when people attack you and feel indifferent when you get praise. You think, 'Of course they like it. They should like it.'

    Hurt   Thinking   People  
    "Paul Auster On Book Reviews: ‘I’ve Learned Not to Look" by Steven Kurutz, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 11, 2010.
  • Praise from an enemy smells of craft.

    Smell   Enemy   Crafts  
  • Those who praise victory relish manslaughter. Those who relish manslaughter cannot reach their goals in the world.

    Goal   Taoism   Victory  
  • Oh Sleep! it is a gentle thing, beloved from pole to pole, to Mary Queen the praise be given! She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven, that slid into my soul.

    Queens   Sleep   Insomnia  
    'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' (1798) pt. 5
  • Praise, of all things, is the most powerful excitement to commendable actions, and animates us in our enterprises.

  • He that applauds him who does not deserve praise, is endeavoring to deceive the public; he that hisses in malice or sport, is an oppressor and a robber.

    Sports   Doe   Praise  
    Samuel Johnson (1800). “The Idler: With Additional Essays”, p.86
  • It has been said in praise of some men, that they could take whole hours together upon anything; but it must be owned to the honor of the other sex that there are many among them who can talk whole hours together upon nothing. I have known a woman branch out into a long extempore dissertation on the edging of a petticoat, and chide her servant for breaking a china cup, in all the figures of rhetoric.

    Sex   Men   Talking  
  • This miserable way is taken by the sorry souls of those who lived without disgrace and without praise. They now commingle with the coward angels, the company of those who were not rebels nor faithful to their God, but stood apart. The heavens, that their beauty not be lessened, have cast them out, nor will deep Hell receive them - even the wicked cannot glory in them.

    Sorry   Taken   Angel  
    Dante Alighieri, “Inferno Canto 03”
  • I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling

    Life   Distance   Inspire  
  • I look forward to seeing Christ and bowing down before Him in praise and gratitude for all He has done for us, and for using me on this earth by His grace-just as I am.

    Gratitude   Grace   Looks  
  • But would we know, whether the pretended prophet had really attained a just sentiment of morals? Let us attend to his narration; and we shall soon find, that he bestows praise on such instances of treachery, inhumanity, cruelty, revenge, bigotry, as are utterly incompatible with civilized society. No steady rule of right seems there to be attended to; and every action is blamed or praised, so far only as it is beneficial or hurtful to the true believers.

    Revenge   Islam   Hurtful  
    David Hume (1758). “Essays and Treatises on several subjects, etc. New edition”, p.135
  • The fire has its flame and praises God. The wind blows the flame and praises God. In the voice we hear the word which praises God. And the word, when heard, praises God. So all of creation is a song of praise to God.

  • Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but for good ends. She has brought me here and will also lead me away. She may scold me, but she will not hate her work. I trust her.

    Wise   Nature   Hate  
  • Late have I loved Thee, O Lord; and behold, Thou wast within and I without, and there I sought Thee. Thou was with me when I was not with Thee. Thou didst call, and cry, and burst my deafness. Thou didst gleam, and glow, and dispell my blindness. Thou didst touch me, and I burned for Thy peace. For Thyself Thou hast made us, and restless our hearts until in Thee they find their ease. Late have I loved Thee, Thou Beauty ever old and ever new. Thou hast burst my bonds asunder; unto Thee will I offer up an offering of praise.

    Love   Peace   Heart  
  • If I had been an Italian I am sure that I should have been whole-heartedly with you from the start to finish in your triumphant struggle against the bestial appetites and passions of Leninism.

    Speech in Rome, www.realclearpolitics.com. January 20, 1927.
  • That all war is physically frightful is obvious; but if that were a moral verdict, there would be no difference between a torturer and a surgeon. There are certain intellectuals who are too bright to be content with merely praising peace but who are infuriated by anybody praising war. If no war is possible, all criminality has its chance

  • I tilt her chin up and bend my face to hers, silently praising every woman who's had a hand in making her who she is.

    Hands   Tilt   Faces  
    Tammara Webber (2011). “Where You Are”, p.213, Tammara Webber
  • A person is bound to lose when he talks about himself; if he belittles himself, he is believed; if he praises himself, he isn't believed.

  • Those may justly be reckoned void of understanding that do not bless and praise God; nor do men ever rightly use their reason till they begin to be religious, nor live as men till they live to the glory of God. As reason is the substratum or subject of religion (so that creatures which have no reason are not capable of religion), so religion is the crown and glory of reason, and we have our reason in vain, and shall one day wish we had never had it, if we do not glorify God with it.

    Matthew Henry “Matthew HenryÕs Commentary on the Whole Bible: Volume IV-III - Ezekiel to Hosea”, Lulu.com
  • I prayed hard and only gradually became aware that this fierce praying was a way of finding prologue and entrance into my own writing. This came as both astonishment and relief. When I thought God had abandoned me, I discovered that He had simply given me a different voice to praise the inexhaustible beauty of the made world.

    Writing   Voice   World  
  • With faint praises one another damn.

    Praise   Damn  
    The Plain Dealer prologue (1677) See Pope 32
  • We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.

    Love   Praise   Virtue  
    William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn: In Five Volumes. ...”, p.181
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