These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I'd be a damn' fool if they weren't.
Dylan Thomas
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I praise loudly. I blame softly.
Catherine the Great
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Many of Bush's defenders have praised him for keeping the country safe since Sept. 11, 2001. He deserves that praise, and I'm perfectly happy to defend most of his surveillance, interrogation and counterterrorism policies against his critics.
Bill Kristol
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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.
Alec Waugh
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Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one's own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.
Satchel Paige
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I don't need validation, recognition or praise. What I need are facts and the facts are that one of my books gets sold, somewhere in the world, every second.
Lee Child
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We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.
Dante Alighieri
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It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.
W. Somerset Maugham
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O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.
Saint Teresa of Avila
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My motto is never to hold on to anything. I accept and then let go: not just the negatives, but the praise, too. Or it'll get to my head.
Nargis Fakhri
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Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'
Immanuel Kant
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I am basically a citizen of the modern world, as we all are, praise the Lord and damn us all to hell.
Ed Weeks
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Praise the sea, on shore remain.
John Florio
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It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking if your own tongue must praise you.
Matthew Hale
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It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.
Jean Paul
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Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
Ambrose Bierce
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It's just as important - if not more important - to take the praise with a pinch of salt, just as you do the criticism.
Shura
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Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.
Rumi
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You can't really praise somebody's work and then criticize the process.
Lucinda Williams
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There are six 'Time Warp Trio' books that would take a page each to fully praise. And I just thought up twelve more while I was typing this sentence.
Jon Scieszka
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God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.
Christopher Morley
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I prefer to praise people and the world rather than criticize them and it.
Alice Walker
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Christ himself wrote nothing, but furnished endless material for books and songs of gratitude and praise.
Philip Schaff
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