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"So, to praise others for their virtues can but encourage one's own efforts."
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"Wonder is involuntary praise."
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"Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise."
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"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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"It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking if your own tongue must praise you."
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"But no one can praise Roosevelt for doing this and then insist that he restored our traditional political and economic systems to their former vitality."
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"Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck."
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"All praise to the masters indeed, but we too could produce a Kant or a Hugo."
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"A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise."
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"True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong."
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"Tis education forms the common mind Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined."
Education

"Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use."
Nature

"A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot."
Wisdom

"For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right."
Faith

"The feast of reason and the flow of soul."
Philosophy

"So vast is art, so narrow human wit."
Knowledge

"All other goods by fortune's hand are given: A wife is the peculiar gift of Heav'n."
Marriage

"Light quirks of music broken and uneven make the soul dance upon a jig of heaven."
Art

"Happy the man, whose wish and careA few paternal acres bound,Content to breathe his native airIn his own ground."
Happiness

"On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale."
Life
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