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Our lenience toward the defects of princes, the great, and the rich, and our over-praise for their excellent qualities are, from the moral standpoint, an injustice, but one which has this advantage, that it encourages ambition and industry, and maintains social distinctions intact, which without loyalty and respect toward superiors would be broken down.
That splendid art, sir, is but given to one man in a century or in several centuries; since I know but Dante and Virgil who have ever equalled your vision of heaven and hell." "Do not over-praise me, Denzil, in thy charity to poverty and affliction.
Therefore, my friends, if any of you have uttered words of kindness, of flattery, of extreme over-praise, even, let me thank you for it. Criticism with praise in it is azotized food; it makes muscle; to expect a man to write without it is like giving nothing but hay to a roadster and expecting to get ten miles an hour out of him.
He was not the first of his house to hold this high place of parish minister the only absolute monarchy in the land and he must not receive over-praise for not falling into those personal awkwardnesses and petty tyrannies which are the infallible signs of one called suddenly to the throne.
Hawthorne has not gone so far in this direction as many others have who had less reason to speak with authority than he; but he has indicated his partiality for Franklin Pierce plainly enough, and his over-praise of Hiram Powers and William Story, as well as his under-praise of Crawford, will go down to future generations as something of an injustice to those three artists.
When I remember all you have done for us it makes me ill to think of some in our town giggling, silly little flirts, with no higher ambition than to strut down the street in a new dress." "Oh, don't think of them or over-praise me.
But you look rarely, Miss; it does me good to see you. What do you say now, Prissy?" here Bob turned to his wife, "Isn't it all come true as I said? Though there isn't many sorts o' goods as I can't over-praise when I set my tongue to't." Mrs.
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