Thus neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
William Cowper
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Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.
THOMAS A KEMPIS Neither blame or praise yourself.
PROVERB Neither blame or praise yourself.
PLUTARCH Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.
ALEXANDER POPE Neither praise nor dispraise thy selfe, thy actins serve the
turne.
GEORGE HERBERT From praise, as from a shadow, a man is neither bigger nor smaller
DANISH PROVERB Praise me not too much,
Nor blame me, for thou speakest to the Greeks
Who know me.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS") That man is great, and he alone,
Who serves a greatness not his own,
For neither praise nor pe...
LORD LYTTON (EDWARD ROBERT BULWER LYTTON) ("OWEN MEREDITH") Thus, neither my government nor myself, personally, are without ideals and responsibilities.
FATOS NANO It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature...
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA That man is great, and he alone,
Who serves a greatness not his own,
For neither praise nor pe...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON No one is to blame. It is neither their fault nor ours. It is the misfortune of being born when a wh...
ALEXANDER HERZEN Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present -- which seldom happens to us...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - which seldom happens to us.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Blame is safer than praise.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Blame is safer than praise
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Hold you there, neither a strange hand nor my own, neither heavy nor light shall touch my bum.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Hold you there, neither a strange hand nor my own, neither heavy nor light shall touch my bum.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are...
MOTHER TERESA For I am convinced that neither death nor life neither angels nor demons neither the present nor the...
ANONYMOUS Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to ...
HENRI POINCARE Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to k...
HENRI POINCARE There is neither creation nor destruction,
neither destiny nor free will, neither
path nor...
RAMANA MAHARSHI History is the story of events, with praise or blame.
COTTON MATHER I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Neither praise or blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish...
WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS Gross National Product measures neither the health of our children, the quality of their education, ...
ROBERT FRANCIS KENNEDY Praise more, blame less.
JIM GENOVESE You are pretty,--we know it; and young,--it is true; and rich,--
who can deny it? But when you prai...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL It is thus, if there is any rule, that we ought to die--neither as victim nor as fanatic, but as the...
E. M. FORSTER Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle...
AESCHYLUS I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART If a square peg doesn’t fit a round hole, neither the peg nor the hole is to blame. Between two pe...
JEFFREY BRYANT Neither turn to thy own way nor seek thy own gain. But inquire the good way's of God.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA The Gross National Product measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our lear...
ROBERT KENNEDY We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgmen...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgment...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds
BUDDHA BUDDHA Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds
BUDDHA It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame.
THOMAS FULLER I praise loudly, I blame softly.
CATHERINE II OF RUSSIA I praise loudly, I blame softly
CATHERINE THE GREAT I praise loudly. I blame softly.
CATHERINE THE GREAT I praise loudly, I blame softly
CATHERINE GREAT We can endure neither our vices nor the remedies for them.
LIVY Thus have we obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab our father in all that he hath charged us...
BIBLE I have neither been there nor done that
NANCY CARTWRIGHT I'm neither a millennial nor a hipster.
AARON SORKIN Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.
VIRGINIA WOOLF We are gentlemen that neither in our hearts nor outward eyes envy the great nor shall the low despis...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Our clerics neither evangelize like the apostles, nor go to war like the secular lords, nor toil lik...
JOHN WYCLIFFE To praise the sun is to praise your own eyes.
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI Similarly, it is argued that the culture of Islam is incompatible with democracy. Basically, this co...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.
VOLTAIRE The currency of the great is neither Yen,nor Naira,nor Dollar ,nor Pound sterling,but faith.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and ...
SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and ...
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.
JOHN JAMES INGALLS What is truth" I was asked. "Truth is neither good nor bad. Neither evil nor pure. It just is." That...
C. JOYBELL C. Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him...
JOHN KEATS Give me the critic bred in Nature's school, who neither talks by rote, nor thinks by rule; who feeli...
SIR MARTIN ARCHER SHEE William Shakespeare: You will never age for me, nor fade, nor die.
MARC NORMAN Blame-all and Praise-all are two blockheads
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The most essential requirement for leaders is neither age nor gender. It is neither certificates nor...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Our actions are neither so good nor so evil as our impulses
VAUVENARGUES MARQUIS DE The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.
DANTE ALIGHIERI God's role in superintending our world and our lives is neither absentee landlord nor micromanag...
ADAM HAMILTON And there is neither beginning nor end, nor past nor future; there is only a present, at the same ti...
RéMY DE GOURMONT Like some wines our love could neither mature nor travel.
GRAHAM GREENE If we do not believe in ourselves- neither in our efficacy nor in our goodness- the universe is a fr...
NATHANIEL BRANDEN Here's the advice Sir William Osler gave the students at Yale: "Live neither in the past nor in the ...
WILLIAM OSLER College is neither good for its own sake nor necessary . . . and that will not be the topic of my pe...
NATASHA VANDERLINDEN Dangerous as a lightning strike, as lethal as a pair of crisscrossing short swords, William whispere...
GENA SHOWALTER There is neither this world nor the world beyond nor happiness for the one who doubts.
BHAGAVAD GITA The love of one's own sex is precious, for it is neither provoked by vanity nor retained by flat...
MARIA MITCHELL Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or ...
SASKYA PANDITA Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one's own virtues or...
SATCHEL PAIGE Most people gaze neither into the past nor the future; they explore neither truth nor lies. They gaz...
RADIOHEAD One is led astray alike by sympathy and coldness, by praise and by blame
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Even as a solid rock is unshaken by the wind, so are the wise unshaken by praise or blame.
GAUTAMA BUDDHA Power is neither male nor female.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.
RUFUS CHOATE Life is neither good nor bad,
WALLY AMOS Education is neither eastern nor western.
MALALA YOUSAFZAI I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly.
CATHERINE II I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly.
CATHERINE THE GREAT Neither holy, nor Roman, nor Empire.
VOLTAIRE Neither a borrower nor a lender be.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is ...
WILLIAM CONGREVE It neither is reason nor in any wise to be suffered that the young king, our master and kinsman, sho...
RICHARD III OF ENGLAND When anyone remains modest, not after praise but after blame, then his modesty is real
JEAN PAUL RICHTER We neither condone, nor encourage participating in this type of activity. It is inconsistent with ou...
ANNA ROZENICH Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one's own virtue...
SATCHEL PAIGE The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.
WINIFRED HOLTBY Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
PEARL BUCK Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
PEARL S. BUCK It is all, the unfolding. Neither good nor bad, my destiny.
T. SCOTT MCLEOD The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman nor an Empire.
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A graver fact, enl...
WILLIAM COWPER Words learn'd by rote a parrot may rehearse,
But talking is not always to converse,
Not more d...
WILLIAM COWPER Variety's the very spice of life,
That gives it all its flavour.
WILLIAM COWPER The earth was made so various, that the mind
Of desultory man, studious of change
And pleased ...
WILLIAM COWPER God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And r...
WILLIAM COWPER His wit invites you by his looks to come,
But when you knock, it never is at home.
WILLIAM COWPER Ten thousand casks,
Forever dribbling out their base contents,
Touch'd by the Midas finger of ...
WILLIAM COWPER Still ending, and beginning still.
WILLIAM COWPER We bear our shades about us; self-deprived
Of other screen, the thin umbrella spread,
And rang...
WILLIAM COWPER Some boundless contiguity of shade.
WILLIAM COWPER No tree in all the grove but has its charms,
Though each its hue peculiar.
WILLIAM COWPER Discourse may want an animated "No"To brush the surface, and to make it flow;But still remember, if ...
WILLIAM COWPER Me howling blasts drive devious, tempest-tossed, / Sails ripped, seams opening wide, and compass los...
WILLIAM COWPER Spare feast! a radish and an egg.
WILLIAM COWPER I was a stricken deer, that left the herd / Long since.
WILLIAM COWPER Away went Gilpin, neck or naught, / Away went hat and wig!
WILLIAM COWPER