PRAISE.
The love of praise, howe'er concealed by art,
Reigns more or less, and glows in every heart.
Love of Fame, Satire I. DR. E. YOUNG.
One good deed dying tongueless
Slaughters a thousand waiting upon that.
Our praises are our wages.
Winter's Tale, Act i. Sc. 2. SHAKESPEARE.
O Popular Applause! what heart of man
Is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?
The Task, Bk. II. W. COWPER.
I would applaud thee to the very echo,
That should applaud again.
Macbeth, Act v. Sc. 3. SHAKESPEARE.
To things of sale a seller's praise belongs.
Love's Labor's Lost, Act iv. Sc. 3. SHAKESPEARE.
If matters not how false or forced,
So the best things be said o' the worst.
Hudibras, Pt. II. S. BUTLER.
Of whom to be dispraised were no small praise.
Paradise Regained, Bk. III. MILTON.
Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe,
Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
Iliad, Bk. X. HOMER. Trans. of. POPE.
Not in the clamor of the crowded street,
Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng,
But in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
The Poets. H.W. LONGFELLOW.