"We are prepared for insults, but compliments leave us baffled."

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"There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket."

Moliere, French Playwright

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"Take those praises with a level head, you must not be distracted by them. After all, purpose still awaits you."

TemitOpe Ibrahim, Nigerian Poet

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"One should use praise to recognize what one is not."

Elias Canetti, Swiss Author

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"Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck."

Eli Wallach, American Actor

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"Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child."

Phyllis McGinley, American Author

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"All praise to the masters indeed, but we too could produce a Kant or a Hugo."

Jose C. Orozco, Mexican Muralist

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"We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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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."

Thomas Paine, English Writer

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"Praise the bridge that carried you over."

George Colman, English Dramatist

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"The sweetest of all sounds is praise."

Xenophon, Greek Soldier

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"There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket."

"Take those praises with a level head, you must not be distracted by them. After all, purpose still awaits you."

"One should use praise to recognize what one is not."

"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."

"Praise the bridge that carried you over."

"The sweetest of all sounds is praise."

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"Logic and fact keep interfering with the easy flow of conversation."

"When sages commend excess, Desire is sick."

"Fears and lies intensify consciousness."

"Seeing my malevolent face in the mirror, my benevolent soul shrinks back."