It becomes cheap as it becomes vulgar, and will no longer raise
expectation or animate enterprise.--DR. JOHNSON.
It is the greatest possible praise to be praised by a man who is
himself deserving of praise.--FROM THE LATIN.
He who praises you for what you have not, wishes to take from you what
you have.--MANUEL.
Thou may'st be more prodigal of praise when thou writest a letter than
when thou speakest in presence.--FULLER.
Those who are greedy of praise prove that they are poor in merit.
--PLUTARCH.
What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he
condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.--HARE.
Allow no man to be so free with you as to praise you to your face.
--STEELE.
Let everything that hath breath praise the Lord.--PSALM 150:6.
Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which
distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of
sycophants and admiration of fools.--STEELE.
PRAYER.--The first petition that we are to make to Almighty God is for
a good conscience, the next for health of mind, and then of body.
--SENECA.
Prayers are heard in heaven very much in proportion to our faith.
Little faith gets very great mercies, but great faith still greater.
--SPURGEON.
When we pray for any virtue, we should cultivate the virtue as well as
pray for it; the form of your prayers should be the rule of your life;
every petition to God is a precept to man.
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