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"A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise."
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"Take those praises with a level head, you must not be distracted by them. After all, purpose still awaits you."
"Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck."
"Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child."
"All praise to the masters indeed, but we too could produce a Kant or a Hugo."
"We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us."
"Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts."
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"Man needs only a small patch of earth for his pleasures, and a smaller one still to rest beneath."
"Each one's no longer consciousOf the high wall, or the rest:Since the one enduring fortress,Is the soldier's iron breast.If you'd live unconquered,Quickly arm, and fight the real foe:Every wife an Amazon bred,And every child a hero."
"I was on the point of breaking off the conversation, for nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart."
"Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game."
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