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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak
ones.
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
Source: Lacon (p. 205)
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O Popular Applause! what heart of man
Is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?
Author: William Cowper
Source: Task (bk. II, l. 431)
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The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the
world, is the highest applause.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: in an address
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The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
Author: Samuel Johnson
Source: Boswell's Life of Johnson
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Like Cato, give his little senate laws,
And sit attentive to his own applause.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Prologue to the Satires (l. 207)
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With these shreds
They vented their complainings, which being answered
And a petition granted them, a strange one,
To break the heart of generosity,
And make bold power look pale, they threw their caps
As they would hang them on the horns o' th' moon,
Shouting their emulation.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Coriolanus (Marcius at I, i)
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If thou couldst, doctor, cast
The water of my land, find her disease,
And purge it to a sound and pristine health,
I would applaud thee to the very echo,
That should applaud you again.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Macbeth (Macbeth at V, iii)
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I'll privily away; I love the people,
But do not like to stage me to their eyes;
Though it do well, I do not relish well
Their loud applause and aves vehement,
Nor do I think the man of safe discretion
That does not affect it.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Measure for Measure (Vincentio, the Duke at I, i)
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Fare ye well, and give us your applause.
[Lat., Vos valete et plaudite.]
Author: Terence (Publius Terentius Afer)
Source: last words of several comedies
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We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.
Author: Edmund Burke
Source: None
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The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: None
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
Source: None
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What exactly is success? For me it is to be found not in applause, but in the satisfaction of feeling that one is realizing one's ideal.
Author: Anna Pavlova
Source: None
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We believe that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.
Author: Alfred Jarry
Source: None
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In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
Author: George Eliot
Source: None
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Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.
Author: Greil Marcus
Source: None
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The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.
Author: Gustav Mahler
Source: None
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