“ The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ 'Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do! ”
- Robert Browning- Copy
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“ The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate. ”
- Oprah Winfrey- Copy
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“ The man who willeth to do well… we should extol his virtues and speak not of his faults behind his back. ”
- Joseph Smith Jr.- Copy
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“ That sign of old age, extolling the past at the expense of the present. ”
- Sydney Smith- Copy
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“ According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to everyone his own value. ”
- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Caleb Bingham- Copy
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“ I'd been a cult singer-songwriter generally well-regarded by some of the better vocalists and journalists of the seventies. Suddenly, a mass audience perceived me as a troubadour who'd dedicated his life to extolling the virtues of pineapple-based beverages. ”
- Rupert Holmes- Copy
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“ Our boldness and Christian suffering, they call obstinacy and pertinacity, though half as much, if among themselves, they would account Christian courage, and nobility. And though thus by their envy they strive to read all, relating to us, backwards, counting these things vices in us, which in themselves they would extol as virtues, yet hath the strength of Truth extorted this confession often from them, that we are generally a pure and clean people as to the outward conversation. ”
- Robert Barclay- Copy
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