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“Most children are given far too much praise for their early drawings, so much so that they rarely learn the ability to refine their first crude efforts the way their early attempts at language are corrected.”

Way Firsts Children Language Given Ability Effort Too Much Praise Drawing Crude

Book:Triskell Tales: Twenty-two Years of Chapbooks

Source: Triskell Tales: Twenty-two Years of Chapbooks

“There are many occasions when the highest praise one can receive is the attack of some given scoundrel.”

Given Highest Praise Occasions Scoundrels

Book:The Big Stick, 1905-1909

Source: The Big Stick, 1905-1909

“God has given you your child, that the sight of him, from time to time, might remind you of His goodness, and induce you to praise Him with filial reverence.”

Children Might Given Goodness Sight Praise Our Children Your Children Reverence Filial

Book:Gotthold's Emblems: Or, Invisible Things Understood by Things that are Made

Source: Gotthold's Emblems: Or, Invisible Things Understood by Things that are Made

“I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.”

Ifs Lasts Given My Own Poverty Virtue Honest Praise Wings Fortune Shakes Refuge

Author:Horace

“Alas! the praise given to the ear Ne'er was nor ne'er can be sincere.”

Given Ears Praise Sincere Flattery Alas

Author:Letitia Elizabeth Landon

“To honor with hymns and panegyrics those who are still alive is not safe; a man should run his course and make a fair ending, and then we will praise him; and let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.”

Men Should Wells Has Beens Stills Running Courses Given Virtue Alive Honor Safe Fairs Praise Distinguished Hymns

Author:Plato

“That is very high praise, which is given you by faithful witness.”

Given Praise Witness Faithful

Author:Plato

“The enjoyment that all morality has given us to now and that it continues to give us--and so, what has kept it going up to now--lies in everyone's right, without lengthy investigation, to praise and blame. And who could endure life without praising and blaming!”

Giving Lying Given Morality Praise Blame Endure Enjoyment Investigation Lengthy

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Remember that there is a God who desires neither praise nor glory from men created in his image, but rather that they, guided by the understanding given them, should in their actions become like unto him.”

Men Should Action Remember Desire Given Understanding Glory Praise

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“Vanity, or to call it by a gentler name, the desire of admiration and applause, is, perhaps, the most universal principle of humanactions.... Where that desire is wanting, we are apt to be indifferent, listless, indolent, and inert.... I will own to you, under the secrecy of confession, that my vanity has very often made me take great pains to make many a woman in love with me, if I could, for whose person I would not have given a pinch of snuff.”

Ifs Persons Made Pain Desire Names Given Principles Universal Praise Vanity If I Could Admiration Confession Indifferent Secrecy Applause Snuff

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“Praise to our Father-God, High praise in solemn lay, Alike for what His hand hath given, And what it takes away.”

God Hands Father Given Praise Lays Our Father Solemn

Book:Pocahontas, and Other Poems

Source: Pocahontas, and Other Poems

“Furthermore, consider that as one of its most important purposes, stewardship of creation should sustain nature's worshiping capacity. The more I reflect on Scriptures and the more I sense how God thrills to the adoration He receives from all that He has created, the more I realize He has given us the awesome responsibility of caring for His creation so that it can go on praising Him until the end of time.”

Should Important Ends Purpose Given Realizing Responsibility Creation Goes On Capacity Praise Environmental Caring Scripture End Times Stewardship Adoration

Author:Tony Campolo