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“A classic is a book which people praise and don't read.”
Mark Twain
“He should be praised for climbing; yetThe other man comes always from a heightAnd lives where praise can never get --Beyond your sight.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“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
“The rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger (praise) will hold people in the palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies”
Dale Carnegie
“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
“You can do more than pray, after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed”
John Bunyan
“Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck”
Eli Wallach
“Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.”
Socrates
“Neither blame or praise yourself.”
Plutarch
“Many are always praising the by-gone time, for it is natural that the old should extol the days of their youth; the weak, the time of their strength; the sick, the season of their vigor; and the disappointed, the spring-tide of their hopes”
George Caleb Bingham
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