Censure is often useful, praise is often deceitful

Censure is often useful, praise is often deceitful

There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.

There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.

Self - praise is no recommendation

Self - praise is no recommendation

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.

A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.

Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God.

Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God.

Praise enough
To fill the ambition of a private man,
That Chatham's language was his mother-tongue.

Praise enough
To fill the ambition of a private man,
That Chatham's language was his mother-tongue.

We are all exited by the love of praise, and the noblest are most
influenced by glory.
[Lat., read more

We are all exited by the love of praise, and the noblest are most
influenced by glory.
[Lat., Trahimur omnes laudis studio, et optimus quisque maxime
gloria ducitur.]

Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of read more

Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.