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Like Cato, give his little senate laws,
And sit attentive to his own applause.
Like Cato, give his little senate laws,
And sit attentive to his own applause.
O Popular Applause! what heart of man
Is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?
O Popular Applause! what heart of man
Is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?
As they marched, the crowds lining the route broke into applause, a sweet and deeply felt spontaneous pattering that was read more
As they marched, the crowds lining the route broke into applause, a sweet and deeply felt spontaneous pattering that was a sort of communal embrace. Welcome home.
Don’t clap I’m not a jazz band for Christ’s sake.
Don’t clap I’m not a jazz band for Christ’s sake.
The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life read more
The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.
If thou couldst, doctor, cast
The water of my land, find her disease,
And purge it to read more
If thou couldst, doctor, cast
The water of my land, find her disease,
And purge it to a sound and pristine health,
I would applaud thee to the very echo,
That should applaud you again.
The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the
world, is the highest applause.
The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the
world, is the highest applause.
With these shreds
They vented their complainings, which being answered
And a petition granted them, a strange read more
With these shreds
They vented their complainings, which being answered
And a petition granted them, a strange one,
To break the heart of generosity,
And make bold power look pale, they threw their caps
As they would hang them on the horns o' th' moon,
Shouting their emulation.
We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.
We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.