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Base wealth preferring to eternal praise. by Homer

Base wealth preferring to eternal praise.

Homer
eternal wealth praise
Praise when merited is not a boon: yet to a generous nature, is i... by Herman Melville

Praise when merited is not a boon: yet to a generous nature, is it pleasant to utter it.

Herman Melville
boon pleasant praise
He who sings the praises of his boyhood's days. by Horace

He who sings the praises of his boyhood's days.

Horace
boyhood praise

I live and reign since I have abandoned those pleasures which you by your praises extol to the skies.

Horace
reign praise sky
The drunkard is convicted by his praises of wine. by Horace

The drunkard is convicted by his praises of wine.

Horace
drunkards wine praise
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or res... by Horace

How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.

Horace
greedy praise mind
Reproach is usually honest, which is more than can be said of pra... by Honore de Balzac

Reproach is usually honest, which is more than can be said of praise.

Honore de Balzac
honest praise said
Every ear is tickled with the sweet music of applause. by Isaac Barrow

Every ear is tickled with the sweet music of applause.

Isaac Barrow
praise ears sweet
Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, b... by Henry David Thoreau

Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs.

Henry David Thoreau
praise fame
We begin to praise when we begin to see a thing needs our assista... by Henry David Thoreau

We begin to praise when we begin to see a thing needs our assistance.

Henry David Thoreau
encouraging praise needs
The muse does not allow the praise-de-serving here to die: she en... by Horace

The muse does not allow the praise-de-serving here to die: she enthrones him in the heavens.

Horace
praise doe heaven

Regard as your most faithful friends, not those who praise everything you say or do, but those who criticize your mistakes.

Isocrates
faithful praise mistake
No praise, no blame. Just so. by Isaac Marion

No praise, no blame. Just so.

Isaac Marion
blame praise
Better to deserve praise without having it, than to have it witho... by Ivan Panin

Better to deserve praise without having it, than to have it without deserving it.

Ivan Panin
deserving-it deserve praise

He that loses his conscience has nothing left that is worth keeping. Therefore be sure you look to that, and in the next place look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to a good conscience.

Izaak Walton
next praise looks
Yet a real artist, I've noticed, will survive anything. (Even pra... by J. D. Salinger

Yet a real artist, I've noticed, will survive anything. (Even praise, I happily suspect.)

J. D. Salinger
artist real praise

One thing for certain you will not ever hear from me is praise for dictators and strongmen who have no love for America.

Hillary Clinton
dictator praise america
I do not care to listen; obloquy injures my self-esteem and I am... by Jack Vance

I do not care to listen; obloquy injures my self-esteem and I am skeptical of praise.

Jack Vance
care self-esteem praise

Everybody keeps calling for Excellence - excellence not just in schooling, throughout society. But as soon as somebody or something stands out as Excellent, the other shout goes up: "Elitism!" And whatever produced that thing, whoever praises that result, is promptly put down. "Standing out" is undemocratic.

Jacques Barzun
excellence calling praise
Praise from the praise-worthy is beyond all rewards. by J. R. R. Tolkien

Praise from the praise-worthy is beyond all rewards.

J. R. R. Tolkien
rewards worthy praise
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