Quotes of Extol - somelinesforyou

“ And touch'd their golden harps, and hymning praised God and his works. ”

- John Milton

“ Praise You. ”

- Ricky Martin

“ He who praises everybody, praises nobody. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ 'Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do! ”

- Robert Browning

“ Praise the LORD; for the LORD is good: sing praises unto his name; for it is pleasant. ”

- Bible

“ The sweetest sound of all is praise. ”

- Xenophon

“ Wonder is involuntary praise. ”

- Edward Young

“ Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God. ”

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“ With faint praises one another damn. ”

- William Wycherley

“ How does it happen, Maecenas, that no one is content with that lot of which he has chosen or which chance has thrown his way, but praises those who follow a different course? ”

- Horace

“ The sweetest of all sounds is praise. ”

- Xenophon

“ I will praise any man that will praise me. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate. ”

- Oprah Winfrey

“ The man who willeth to do well… we should extol his virtues and speak not of his faults behind his back. ”

- Joseph Smith Jr.

“ That sign of old age, extolling the past at the expense of the present. ”

- Sydney Smith

“ According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to everyone his own value. ”

- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

“ Many are always praising the by-gone time, for it is natural that the old should extol the days of their youth; the weak, the time of their strength; the sick, the season of their vigor; and the disappointed, the spring-tide of their hopes. ”

- Caleb Bingham

“ I'd been a cult singer-songwriter generally well-regarded by some of the better vocalists and journalists of the seventies. Suddenly, a mass audience perceived me as a troubadour who'd dedicated his life to extolling the virtues of pineapple-based beverages. ”

- Rupert Holmes

“ Our boldness and Christian suffering, they call obstinacy and pertinacity, though half as much, if among themselves, they would account Christian courage, and nobility. And though thus by their envy they strive to read all, relating to us, backwards, counting these things vices in us, which in themselves they would extol as virtues, yet hath the strength of Truth extorted this confession often from them, that we are generally a pure and clean people as to the outward conversation. ”

- Robert Barclay
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