P Quotes
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“Praise is the only gift for which people are really grateful. Marguerite, Countess of Blessington I praise loudly; I blame softly.”
“Praise is the peace of being.”
“Praise is the purest thoughts.”
“Praise is the reflection of virtue.”
Source: The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, Lord High Chancellor of England ...: With Several Additional Pieces, Never Before Printed in Any Edition of His Works. To which is Prefixed, a New Life of the Author
“Praise is the rehearsal for our eternal song.”
“Praise is the Rehearsal of Our eternal Song By Grace We learn to Sing, and in Glory We Continue to Sing.”
Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 36: Sermons 2121-2181
“Praise is the rehearsal of our eternal song. By grace we learn to sing, and in glory we continue to sing. What will some of you do when you get to heaven, if you go on grumbling all the way? Do not hope to get to heaven in that style. But now begin to bless the name of the Lord.”
Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 36: Sermons 2121-2181
“Praise is the symbol which represents sympathy, and which the mind insensibly substitutes for its recollection and language.”
Source: The Miscellaneous Works of the Right Honourable Sir James Mackintosh: Complete in One Volume
“Praise is to express approval in worship to your Lord and Savior. I hope you want to praise the living God and His Son, Jesus Christ, right now: for they are good, and God’s mercy and love endures forever and ever. Do you agree? Say this to yourself until it’s deep down on the inside of you, “I will bless the Lord at all times: His praise should continuously be in my mouth” (Psalm 34:1).”
“Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child.”
“Praise is well, compliment is well, but affection-that is the last and most precious reward that any man can win, whether by character or achievement.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)
“Praise leads to weakness. Getting it causes fear, losing it causes fear.”
“Praise lies upon a higher plane than thanksgiving. When I give thanks, my thoughts still circle about myself to some extent. But in praise my soul ascends to self-forgetting adoration.”
“Praise little, dispraise less.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“Praise makes me humble, but when I am abused, I know that I have touched the stars.”
Source: Oscar Wilde and a Game Called Murder: A Mystery
“Praise me not too much,
Nor blame me, for thou speakest to the Greeks
Who know me.”
Source: The Iliad of Homer
“Praise must be learned in private before it is exhibited in public.”
Source: The Purpose and Power of Praise and Worship (Large Print 16pt)
“Praise my all-righteous God. Lord, you are beyond description of what I can put in words. The human language with all its most beautiful, intensified, descriptive words can't express an inch of your amazingness.”
Source: The Land Flowing With Milk And Honey
“Praise never gives us much pleasure unless it concur with our own opinion, and extol us for those qualities in which we chiefly excel.”
Source: Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects
“Praise none too much, for all are fickle.”
Source: The Poetical Works of G. H. and R. Heber. With Memoir
“Praise not the day until evening has come, a woman until she is burnt, a sword until it is tried, a maiden until she is married, ice until it has been crossed, beer until it has been drunk.”
Source: The 13th Warrior.: The Manuscript of Ibn Fadlan, Relating His Experiences with the Northmen in A.D. 922.
“Praise of blame in the moment means little: it is how their decisions play out over time that matters, and so the redemption they're looking for is of a more lasting kind. They are one another's peers; who else can really judge them?”
Source: The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity
“Praise of power leads to weakness; Love of things leads to loss; The wise one leads by filling people's hearts; He destroys illusion and disturbs those who believe they are wise; He does nothing yet everything happens.”
“Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.”
Source: John Keats - The Man Behind The Lyrics: Life, letters, and literary remains: Complete Letters and Two Extensive Biographies of one of the most beloved English Romantic poets
“Praise or damn as you please, but do so rather flatly, pragmatically, with cunning attention to annoying or gratifying details. Be yourself. Be unique. Be a good editor. The Universe needs more good editors, God knows.”
Source: Kurt Vonnegut: Letters
“Praise our choices, sister, for each doorway open to us was taken by squads of fighting women who paid years of trouble and struggle, who paid their wombs, their sleep, their lives that we might walk through these gates upright. Doorways are sacred to women for we are the doorways of life and we must choose what comes in and what goes out. Freedom is our real abundance.”
“Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.”
“Praise requires constant renewal and expansion.”
Source: Coming into the End Zone: A Memoir
“Praise Roxane Gay for her big-hearted self-examining intelligence, for her inclusive and forgiving stance, for her courage and determination . . . for saying out loud the things we were thinking, for guiding us back to ourselves and returning to us what was ours all along.”
“Praise shames me, for I secretly beg for it.”
Source: Poems
“Praise shifts our focus away from our problems and moves us to meditate on the nature and character of God Himself.”
Source: RISE UP: Believing God When the World is Falling Apart
“Praise the beautiful for their intelligence and the intelligent for their beauty.”
“Praise the child, and you make love to the mother.”
Source: Advice to Young Men, and, incidentally, to Young Women, in the middle and higher ranks of life. In a series of letters, etc
“Praise the Creator while you have grace to sing.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Praise the eternal God all you people of the earth His love is powerful.”
“Praise the green earth. Chance has appointed her home, workshop, larder, middenpit. Her lousy skin scabbed here and there by cities provides us with name and nation.”
Source: The Poems of Basil Bunting
“Praise the humanities, my boy. That'll make them think you're broadminded!”
“Praise the innocence of childhood....soon forgotten”
“Praise the Lord for the fact that you are still breathing. Offer unto Him your Thanksgiving.”
Source: The Gift of Thanksgiving
“Praise the Lord from the heavens; praise him in the heights!”
“Praise the Lord God for his glorious name”
“Praise the Lord God who gives strength to my soul.”
“Praise the Lord, but do me a favor, don't ever say 'Stephen Baldwin' and 'ministry' in the same sentence.”
“Praise the Lord, my soul, who satisfies your desires with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's. The Lord works righteousness and justice for all the oppressed.”
“Praise the Lord, O England's Jerusalem: and Netherland's Zion, praise ye the Lord! He hath secured your gates, and blessed your possessions with peace, even here, where the threatened torch of war was lighted.”
“Praise the Maker for the mighty things he has done.”
“Praise the miracle body The odd and undeniable mechanics of hand
Hundred boned foot, perfect stretch of tendon
Praise the veins that river these wrists
Praise the prolapsed valve in a heart
Praise the scars marking a gallbladder absent
Praise the rasp and rattle of functioning lungs
Praise the pre-arthritic ache of elbows and ankles
Praise the lifeline sectioning a palm
Praise the photographic pads of fingertips
Praise the vulnerable dip at the base of a throat
Praise the muscles surfacing on an abdomen
Praise these arms that carry babies, and anthologies
Praise the leg hairs that sprout and are shaved
Praise the ass that refuses to shrink or be hidden
Praise the cunt that bleeds and accepts, bleeds and accepts
Praise the prominent ridge of nose
Praise the strange convexity of rib cage
Praise the single hair that insists on growing from a right areola
Praise the dent where the mole was clipped from the back of a neck
Praise these inner thighs brushing
Praise these eyelashes that sometimes turn inward
Praise these hips preparing to spread into a grandmother’s skirt
Praise the beauty of the freckle on the first knuckle of a left little finger
We’re gone in a blizzard of seconds
Love the body human while we’re here
A gift of minutes on an evolving planet
A country in flux, give thanks
For bone, and dirt, and the million things that will kill us someday
Motion and the pursuit of happiness, no garauntees, give thanks
For chaos theory, ecology, common sense that says we are web
A planet in balance or out
That butterfly in Tokyo setting off thunder storms in Iowa
Tell me you don’t matter to a universe that conspired to give you such a tongue
Such rhythm or rhythmless hips
Such opposable thumbs
Give thanks, or go home a waste of spark
Speak, or let the maker take back your throat
March, or let the creator rescind your feet
Dream, or let your god destroy your good and fertile mind
This is your warning
This your birthright
Do not let this universe regret you”
“Praise the name of baseball. The word will set captives free. The word will open the eyes of the blind. The word will raise the dead. Have you the word of baseball living inside you? Has the word of baseball become part of you? Do you live it, play it, digest it, forever? Let an old man tell you to make the word of baseball your life. Walk into the world and speak of baseball. Let the word flow through you like water, so that it may quicken the thirst of your fellow man.”
“Praise the one who speaks ill of you. Before long he will become a friend”
“Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation. Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just, And this be our motto: "In God is our trust." And the star-spangled banner forever shall wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!”