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The sweetest of all sounds is praise.


Xenophon

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JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Criticism is more effective when it sounds like praise.
ARNOLD GLASGOW Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.
MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures.
LUC DE CLAPIERS The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures
VAUVENARGUES MARQUIS DE He the sweetest of all singers.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.
LAURENCE STERNE Praise from the praise-worthy is beyond all rewards.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Be kind, O Bacchus, take this empty pot offered to thee by Xenophon, the sot, Who, giving this, give...
ERATOSTHENES The praise of the praiseworthy is above all rewards.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN All's well that carries on well
AMIT ABRAHAM All our sweetest hours fly fastest.
VIRGIL All our sweetest hours fly fastest.
DAVID TUVILL Praise from an enemy is the most pleasing of all commendations.
SIR RICHARD STEELE The best kind of praise is intelligent praise.
RACHEL HEFFINGTON Praise God, from whom all blessings flow! Praise Him, all creatures here below! Praise Him above, ye...
THOMAS KEN Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superio...
TRYON EDWARDS Death lies on her like an untimely frostUpon the sweetest flower of all the field.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Praise is the best diet for us, after all
SYDNEY SMITH Success is the sweetest revenge.
VANESSA WILLIAMS Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge.
ISAAC FRIEDMANN The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
LUC DE CLAPIERS The fruit of your own hard work is the sweetest.
DEEPIKA PADUKONE The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES The Sweetest of Nights
JUDITH VIORST Some of the sweetest candy is sour as death inside.
UNKNOWN What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant?
JANE AUSTEN Being present is being connected to All Things.
S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. A bitter critic is the sweetest corrector.
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON Of all the most devastating sounds in the universe, silence is the most powerful.
GERARD DE MARIGNY The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.
PEARL BAILEY The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.
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MICHAEL SCOTT When the fruit is scarcest its taste is sweetest
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HOPE MIRRLEES The sweetest music this side of heaven.
GUY LOMBARDO Often the lowest hanging fruit is not the sweetest.
JIM GENOVESE Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and the one nearest at hand.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE All the sounds of the earth are like music.
OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN All the sounds of the earth are like music
OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II All the sounds of the earth are like music.
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ROMAN JAKOBSON A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Its liquor is like the sweetest dew from Heaven.
LU YU To praise the sun is to praise your own eyes.
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI All power is within you; you can do anything and everything. Believe in that, do not believe that yo...
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BILLY SPITZER There was something in her eyes! Her eyes were expressive and from the first day that they met, they...
AVIJEET DAS The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Blame-all and Praise-all are two blockheads
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
MALCOLM STEVENSON FORBES Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
MALCOLM S. FORBES Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
MALCOLM FORBES Leveraging existing resources is innovation’s sweetest play.
RICHIE NORTON Sweetest smile is made saddest tear-drop!
EDWIN ARNOLD To write a verse or two is all the praise That I can raise
GEORGE HERBERT Poverty - it is life near the bone, where it is sweetest
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poverty ... It is life near the bone, where it is sweetest.
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ANGELA RICHARDSON The secret of my success is my hairspray.
RICHARD GERE Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too.
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DANNY MURPHY One of the greatest sounds of them all - and to me it is a sound - is utter, complete silence
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