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«The censure of those who are opposed to us, is the highest commendation that can be given us.»
«You shall easily know a vainglorious man: his own commendation rumbles within him till he hath bulked it out, and the air of it is unsavory»
Author: Thomas Adams
| Keywords:
bulked, commendation, rumble, rumbles, rumbling, unsavory, vainglorious
«Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you? / Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men: / Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.»
«COMMENDATION, n. The tribute that we pay to achievements that resembles, but do not equal, our own.»
«We should not be so taken up in the search for truth; as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer)
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commendation, Duties of, needful, neglect, taken up, The Search
«A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves with single morsels, and recompense the infrequency of their enjoyment by excess and riot, whenever fortune sets the banquet before them.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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banquet, commendation, infrequency, morsels, recompense, riot
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