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“There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.”
William Shakespeare
“I praise loudly, I blame softly”
Catherine the Great
“To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.”
Will Durant
“I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.”
Noel Coward
“A classic is a book which people praise and don't read.”
Mark Twain
“The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.”
Norman Vincent Peale
“Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.”
Marcus Aurelius
“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
“It is not for minds like ours to give or to receive flatter; yet the praises of sincerity have ever been permitted to the voice of friendship”
Lord Byron
“You can do more than pray, after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed”
John Bunyan
