Praise, of all things, is the ...

Praise, of all things, is the most powerful excitement to commendable actions, and animates us in our enterprises.
Praise, of all things, is the most powerful excitement to commendable actions, and animates us in our enterprises.
 Jean de la Bruyere

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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Never complain and never explain.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
 George S. Patton
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
 Robert Schuller
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
 Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.
 Jean de La Bruyère
Love and friendship exclude each other.
 Jean de La Bruyère
No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends as to give them no cause to miss him less.
 Jean de la Bruyere
Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.
 Jean de la Bruyere
During the course of our life we now and then enjoy some pleasures so inviting, and have some encounters of so tender a nature, that though they are forbidden, it is but natural to wish that they were at least allowable. Nothing can be more delightful, except it be to abandon them for virtue's sake.
 Jean de la Bruyere