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Praise undeserved s satire in disguise.
Author: Henry Broadhurst
Source: British Beauties--Epigram in the Garland
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We are all exited by the love of praise, and the noblest are most
influenced by glory.
[Lat., Trahimur omnes laudis studio, et optimus quisque maxime
gloria ducitur.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: Oratio Pro Licinio Archia (XI)
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I am pleased to be praised by a man so praised as you, father.
[Words used by Hector.]
[Lat., Laetus sum
Laudari me abs te, pater, laudato viro.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: Oratio Pro Licinio Archia (XI)
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Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God.
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Source: Hymn Before Sunrise in the Vale of Chamouni (last line)
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Praise the bridge that carried you over.
Author: George Colman ("The Younger")
Source: Heir-at-Law (act I, sc. 1)
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Praise enough
To fill the ambition of a private man,
That Chatham's language was his mother-tongue.
Author: William Cowper
Source: Task (bk. II, l. 235)
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When needs he must, yet faintly then he praises;
Somewhat the deed, much more the means he raises:
So marreth what he makes, and praising most, dispraises.
Author: Phineas Fletcher
Source: The Purple Island (canto VII, st. 67)
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Long open panegyric drags at best,
And praise is only praise when well address'd.
Author: Phineas Fletcher
Source: The Purple Island (canto VII, st. 67)
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Good people all, with one accord,
Lament for Madame Blaize,
Who never wanted a good word--
From those who spoke her praise.
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Source: Elegy on Mrs. Mary Blaize
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Praise me not too much,
Nor blame me, for thou speakest to the Greeks
Who know me.
Author: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")
Source: The Iliad (bk. X, l. 289), (Bryant's translation)
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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe,
Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
Author: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")
Source: The Iliad (bk. X, l. 293), (Pope's translation)
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A eulogist of past times.
[Lat., Laudator temporis acti.]
Author: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Source: Ars Poetica (173)
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To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
[Lat., Principibus placuisse viris non ultima laus est.]
Author: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Source: Epistles (I, 17, 35)
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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
Author: Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
Source: Maxims (no. 152)
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That is fine, and I would have praised you more had you praised
me less.
[Fr., Cela est beau, et je vous louerais davantage si vous
m'aviez loue moins.]
Author: Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
Source: Maxims (no. 152)
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The sweeter sound of woman's praise.
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
Source: Lines Written on the Night of 30th of July, 1847
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Join voices, all ye living souls: ye birds,
That singing up to heaven-gate ascend,
Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise.
Author: John Milton
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. V, l. 197)
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And touch'd their golden harps, and hymning praised
God and his works.
Author: John Milton
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. VII, l. 258)
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Of whom to be disprais'd were no small praise.
Author: John Milton
Source: Paradise Regained (bk. III, l. 56)
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Approbation from Sir Hubert Stanley is praise indeed.
Author: Thomas Morton
Source: Cure for the Heartache (act V, sc. 2)
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Solid pudding against empty praise.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: The Dunciad (bk. I, l. 54)
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To what base ends, and by what abject ways,
Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise!
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Essay on Criticism (l. 520)
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Praise undeserved is scandal in disguise.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: First Epistle of Second Book of Horace
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Delightful praise!--like summer rose,
That brighter in the dew-drop glows,
The bashful maiden's cheek appear'd,
For Douglas spoke, and Malcolm heard.
Author: Sir Walter Scott
Source: The Lady of the Lake (canto II, st. 24)
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He deserves praise who does not what he may, but what he ought.
[Lat., Id facere laus est quod decet, non quod licet.]
Author: Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Source: Octavia (454)
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He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
Author: Samuel Johnson
Source: None
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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays The pleasing game of interchanging praise.
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
Source: None
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I can live for two months on a good compliment.
Author: Mark Twain
Source: None
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Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.
Author: Will Rogers
Source: None
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