PRAISE.--Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.--BOVEE.
Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.--PROVERBS 27:2.
For if good were not praised more than ill, None would chuse goodness of his own free will. --SPENSER.
Praise has different effects, according to the mind it meets with; it makes a wise man modest, but a fool more arrogant, turning his weak brain giddy.--FELTHAM.
Solid pudding against empty praise.--POPE.
It is always esteemed the greatest mischief a man can do to those whom he loves, to raise men's expectations of them too high by undue and impertinent commendations.--SPRAT.
Speak not in high commendation of any man to his face, nor censure any man behind his back; but if thou knowest anything good of him, tell it unto others; if anything ill, tell it privately and prudently to himself.--BURKITT.
As the Greek said, "Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to praise."--WENDELL PHILLIPS.
It is singular how impatient men are with overpraise of others, how patient of overpraise of themselves; and yet the one does them no injury, while the other may be their ruin.--LOWELL.
Good things should be praised.--SHAKESPEARE.
He hurts me most who lavishly commends.--CHURCHILL.
The love of praise, howe'er concealed by art, Reigns more or less and glows in every heart. --YOUNG.
Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. 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.