Be praised, O my Lord by Brother Wind, By air and cloud and every clime To whom Thou givest sustenance unto their kind.
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
How were friendship possible? In mutual devotedness to the good and true; otherwise impossible, except as armed neutrality or hollow commercial league. A man, be the heavens ever praised, is sufficient for himself; yet were ten men, united in love, capable of being and of doing what ten thousand singly would fail in. Infinite is the help man can yield to man.
In the early 1700's, two physicians. . . learned about pinkroot's efficacy from the Indians. The word soon spread to the general public, who praised this worm treatment, particularly against roundworms, for the next 200 years. Pinkroot fell into disuse in the early 1900's, simply because greedy herb dealers adulterated or even substituted shipments of true pinkroot with quantities of other plants.
As the proverb says, "a good beginning is half the business" and "to have begun well" is praised by all.
A film that aims low should not be praised for hitting that target.
For the good, when praised, feel something of disgust, if to excess commended.
I made friends with a lot of those who could have criticized me in print and who didn't, who praised me instead.
You can't ever approach a book as a complete virgin, certainly not if you're a critic. There is a lot of bad faith out there. That's why I finally trained myself not to look at this stuff anymore, because it doesn't do me any good to see myself either praised or attacked.
If the tide of defamation and abuse shall turn, and my administration come to be praised, future Vice-Presidents who may succeed to the Presidency may feel some slight encouragement to pursue an independent course.
The novels that get praised in the NY Review of Books aren't worth reading. Ninety-seven percent of science fiction is adolescent rubbish, but good science fiction is the best and only literature of our times.
Politics is too often regarded as a poor relation, inherently dependent and subsidiary; it is rarely praised as something with a life and character of its own.
People would rather be praised than criticized but the later may help us make more progress.
My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.
When you're a monster, you are thanked and praised for not being a monster.
Peace and quiet are preferred. Victory should not be praised.
When Hillary Clinton deserved to be praised, I praised her. When Donald Trump did, as well, I did that, too.
William Henry Flower the Anglican too praised evolution as a cleansing solvent, dissolving the dross which had 'encrusted' Christianity 'in the days of ignorance and superstition'.
For if good were not praised more than ill, None would chuse goodness of his own free will.
It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare attainment.