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«That is not the best sermon which makes the hearers go away talking to one another, and praising the speaker, but which makes them go away thoughtful and serious, and hastening to be alone»
Author: Gilbert Burnet
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Sermons
| Keywords:
go away, hastened, hastening, hastens, hearer, hearers, praising, sermon, speaker, talking to, thoughtful
«Praising an honest person who doesn't deserve it, always wounds them.»
Author: Nicholas Boileau
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praising
«Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
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Book of Job, book review, exceptionally, indiscriminate, inventing, irritating, praising, prolonged, reactions, reviewing, spontaneous, thankless, trash
«Testy, querulous and given to praising the way things were when he was a boy.»
«Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.»
«Praising all alike, is praising none»
«Praising the lean and sallow abstinence.»
«Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, ''There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.''»
Author: Plutarch
(Author, Biographer)
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bravery, Cato, Cato The Elder, elder, foolhardy, praising
«The leader is very meticulous and is disciplined. Such a person is definitely worth respecting and praising. All should therefore lead a balanced and disciplined life. »
«Praising what is lost Makes the remembrance dear»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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Praise
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praising, remembrance
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