Praises Quotes
167 quotes by 156 authors
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Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great prophets of the…
— Karen Armstrong
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It would not be possible to praises nurses too highly.
— Stephen Ambrose
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I do not know much about Mohammed or Mohammedanism. I do not take the Koran to bed with me every night. But, if I did…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Do not become a disciple of one who praises himself, in case you learn pride instead of humility.
— Mark the Evangelist
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Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.
— Herman Melville
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That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to are paid to antiquity, is a complaint likely to…
— Ben Jonson
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If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches…
— Joseph Addison
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He who praises another enriches himself far more than he does the one praised. To praise is an investment in happiness. The poorest human being…
— George Madison Adams
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He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
— Honore de Balzac
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The whole life of a Christian should be nothing but praises and thanks to God; we should neither eat nor sleep, but eat to God…
— Richard Sibbes
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He who freely praises what he means to purchase, and he who enumerates the faults of what he means to sell, may set up a…
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
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A person is bound to lose when he talks about himself; if he belittles himself, he is believed; if he praises himself, he isn't believed.
— Michel de Montaigne
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After eating, an epicure gives a thin smile of satisfaction; a gastronome, burping into his napkin, praises the food in a magazine; a gourmet, repressing…
— William Safire
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And before my Soul took me to task I was hard of hearing; I heard only tumult and uproar. But now I am all ears…
— Khalil Gibran
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The tears into his eyes were brought, And thanks and praises seemed to run So fast out of his heart, I thought They never would…
— William Wordsworth
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Blessings we enjoy daily, and for most of them, because they be so common, we forget to pay our praises. But let not us, because…
— Izaak Walton
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For awareness you need not go to the Himalayas; you need not go anywhere. Your life gives you enough opportunities to be aware. Somebody insults…
— Rajneesh
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Don't let yourself forget that God's grace rewards not only those who never slip, but also those who bend and fall. So sing! The song…
— Hildegard of Bingen
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There is a land, where the roses are without thorns, where the flowers are not mixed with brambles. In that land, there is eternal spring,…
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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The praises of others may be of use in teaching us, not what we are, but what we ought to be.
— Augustus William Hare
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