I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.
I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.
Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value to its scarcity.
Hunger is never delicate they who are seldom gorged to the full with praise may be safely fed with gross compliments, for the appetite must be satisfied before it is disgusted.
He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to show how much he can spare.
Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.
The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants.
Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain.
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