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Quotations by Subject: Love (162 quotes)

Results from Poor Man's College:

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.: Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.: Phillips Brooks (1835 - 1893)
A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.: Alec Waugh
When I was young I had an elderly friend who used often to ask me to stay with him in the country. He was a religious man and he read prayers to the assembled household every morning. But he had crossed out in pencil all the passages that praised God. He said that there was nothing so vulgar as to praise people to their faces and, himself a gentleman, he could not believe that God was so ungentlemanly as to like it.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain.: Johnson
There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.: C. C. Colton
Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough; and we receive it as a favor; but when it comes in great quantities, we regard it only as a debt, which nothing but our merit could extort.: James Goldsmith
The measure of a man is what he does with power.: Pittacus
Most powerful is he who has himself in his power.: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)

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