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Praise

«You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank.»
Author: Bobby Jones (Golfer) | About: Praise | Keywords: robbing a bank
«You can do more than pray, after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed»
Author: John Bunyan (Author, Minister) | About: Praise | Keywords: prayed
«When someone sings his own praises, he always gets the tune too high.»
Author: Mary H. Waldrip | About: Praise
«Who cared if there was really any Being to pray to? What mattered was the sense of giving thanks and praise, the feeling of a humble and grateful heart.»
Author: Oliver Sacks | About: Praise | Keywords: grateful, humble, mattered, thanks, The sense
«Wonder is involuntary praise»
Author: Edward Young (Critic, Dramatist, Poet) | About: Praise, Wonder | Keywords: involuntary
«You do ill to praise, but worse to censure, what you do not understand»
«You are pretty - we know it; and young - it's true; and rich - who can deny it? But when you praise yourself extravagantly, Fabula, you appear neither rich, nor pretty, nor young»
Author: Marcus Aurelius | About: Praise | Keywords: extravagantly
«Where there is no difficulty there is no praise»