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“Leaving the complications of the human breakfast-table out of account, in an elemental sense, the egg only exists to produce the chicken. But the chicken does not exist only in order to produce another egg. He may also exist to amuse himself, to praise God, and even to suggest ideas to a French dramatist. Being a conscious life, he is, or may be, valuable in himself.”

Humans May Doe Ideas Order Animal Produce Creatures Conscious Accounts Praise Tables Leaving Valuable Eggs Chickens Breakfast Complication Elementals Praise God

Book:The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

“It is of no small commendation to manage a little well. To live well in abundance is the praise of the estate, not of the person. I will study more how to give a good account of my little, than how to make it more.”

Giving Wells Littles Persons Economy Study Accounts Praise Manage Abundance Estates Live Well Commendation

Book:The Works of Joseph Hall: Devotional works; Miscellaneous theology

Source: The Works of Joseph Hall: Devotional works; Miscellaneous theology

“Anybody who is a professional athlete who has a social media account on any of the networks, when they sign up for that account, they subject themselves to all of the criticisms and all of the praises that may or may not be out there. So you can't get on social media and complain about the people because that's what you know you're dealing with. You have to hear it. You don't have to respond. Me personally, I don't respond to the negativity. It's gonna be there. I read it. It keeps me grounded.”

People Knows May Social Subjects Media Criticism Accounts Praise Athlete Social Media Complaining Negativity Grounded Professional Athlete

Author:George Wilson

“We think that we are generous because we credit our neighbor with those virtues that are likely to benefit ourselves. We praise the banker that we may overdraw our account, and find good qualities in the highwayman in the hope that he may spare our pockets.”

Thinking May Quality Virtue Benefits Accounts Praise Credit Neighbor Generous Pockets Spares Bankers Good Quality Highwaymen

Book:The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts

Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts

“Receive every day as a resurrection from death, as a new enjoyment of life; meet every rising sun with such sentiments of God's goodness, as if you had seen it, and all things, new-created upon your account: and under the sense of so great a blessing, let your joyful heart praise and magnify so good and glorious a Creator.”

Source: A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life, adapted to the State and Condition of all Orders of Christians, Volume 4

“True virtue never appears so lovely as when it is most oppressed; and the divine excellency of real Christianity is never exhibited with such advantage as when under the greatest trials; then it is that true faith appears much more precious than gold, and upon this account is "found to praise and honour and glory.”

Real Found Christianity Virtue Divine Glory Advantage Gold Accounts Praise Lovely Trials Honour Oppressed True Faith Real Christianity

Book:The Works of Jonathan Edwards

Source: The Works of Jonathan Edwards