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Letter "P" » Praise
«The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.»
Author: Oprah Winfrey
(Actress, Producer)
| About:
Praise
| Keywords:
celebrate, celebrates, celebrating, praise
«There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.»
«There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.»
«There are two modes of establishing our reputation: to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the former, because it will invariably be accompanied by the latter.»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
| About:
Praise,
Reputation
| Keywords:
abused, abusing, accompanied, accompanying, Establishing, former, invariably, latter, modes, praised, rogues, secure
«There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.»
«Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays, the pleasing game of interchanging praise.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| About:
Praise
| Keywords:
genial, interchange, interchanging
«Some things are better praised by silence than by remark»
«The advantage of doing one's praising to oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places»
«There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Praise,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
praise, twenties, twenty, wise man
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