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The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.


Niccolo Machiavelli


#acquire #admittedly #always #common #common thing

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.


Friedrich Nietzsche


#blame #causes #completely #conscience #exposed

Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.


J. B. Priestley


#himself #his #making #man #many

Human rights are praised more than ever - and violated as much as ever.


Anna Lindh


#human #human rights #more #much #praised

If to the viewer's eyes, my world appears less beautiful than his, I'm to be pitied and the viewer praised.


Rockwell Kent


#beautiful #eyes #his #i #less

George Bush, Dick Cheney, every one of the speakers praised John Kerry's war record. No one said he was unfit. They said he has terrible judgment, and that's his record as a senator. Nobody questioned his military record.


Peter King


#cheney #dick cheney #every #george #george bush

The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that perhaps, is what makes him different from others.


Leo Rosten


#even #him #loved #makes #more

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.


Bertrand Russell


#admired #being #fall #haven #little

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.


William Shakespeare


#believing #comfort #darkness #despair #gives

I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because it's repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.


Fiona Shaw


#because #dangerously #i #loathe #most






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