#praise

An actor remembers his first piece of published praise. It is written on his heart. ↗

— Conrad Veidt

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Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot. ↗

— Edmund Waller

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The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless. ↗

— Billy Graham

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It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Praise does wonders for our sense of hearing. ↗

— Arnold H. Glasow

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Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

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It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

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Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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To the house of a friend if you're pleased to retire, You must all things admit, you must all things admire; You must pay with observance the price of your treat, You must eat what is praised, and must praise what you eat. ↗

— George Crabbe

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