And those who paint 'em truest praise 'em most.

-Addison,Joseph
  The Campaign,1.476.

Through all Eternity toThee A joyful Song I'll raise, For oh! Eternity's too short To utter all thy Praise.

-Addison,Joseph
  In The Spectator, no.453, 9  Aug.

   In the deserts of the heart Let the healing fountain start, In the prison of his days Teach the free man how to praise.

-Auden,W(ystan) H(ugh)
  'In Memory of  W.B.Yeats', pt.3.

Deliver me from bloodguiltiness,O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.OLord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise. For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would Igive it: thou delightest not in burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart,O God, thou wilt not despise.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms 51:14^17.

God be merciful untous, and blessus; and causehis face to shine upon us; Selah. That thy way may be known upon earth, thy saving health among all nations. Let the peoplepraisethee,OGod; let all thepeople praisethee.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms 67:1^3.

The Spirit of the Lord G isuponme; becausethe Lhath anointed meto preach good tidings untothemeek; he hath sent me, to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;To proclaim the acceptable yearofthe L, and the dayof vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for thespirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the L, that he might be glorified.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ODORD ORDORDIsaiah 61:1^3.

Benedicite, omnia opera Domini, Domino; laudate et superexaltate eum in secula. Bless the Lord, all the works of the Lord; praise him and exalt him above all things for ever.

-Bible (Vulgate)
Daniel 3:57.

An industrial worker would sooner have a »5 note but a countryman must have praise.

-Blythe, Ronald George
  Akenfield, ch.5.

First, It was ordained for the procreation of children, to be brought up in the fear and nurture of the Lord, and to the praise of his holy Name.

-Book of Common Prayer
Solemnization of Marriage, Exhortation.

Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.

-Buck, Pearl ne¤  e Sydenstricker
  To My Daughters, With Love,'First Meeting'.

   Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes, Flow gently, I'll sing thee a song in thy praise.

-Burns, Robert
  'Afton Water', stanza1.

Why should the follies of this dull age Draw from thy pen such an immodest rage As seems to blast thy else-immortal bays, When thine own tongue proclaims thy itch of praise? Such thirst will argue drought.

-Carew,Thomas
  'To Ben  Jonson, Upon occasion of his Ode of Defiance annexed to his play of  The New Inn'.

I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.

-Coward, Sir Noe«  l Peirce
Attributed.

What cannot praise effect in mighty minds, When flattery soothes, and when ambition blinds!

-Dryden,John
Absalom and  Achitophel, pt.1, l.303^4.

What life have you if you have not life together? There is not life that is not in community, And no community not lived in praise of God.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  Choruses from The Rock.

Morning has broken Like the first morning, Blackbird has spoken Like the first bird. Praise for the singing! Praise for the morning! Praise for them springing Fresh from the Word!

-Farjeon, Eleanor
  Children's Bells,'A Morning Song'.

Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition. See Blacker132:93.

-Forgy, Howell Maurice
  At Pearl Harbor,7 Dec. Reported in the NewYork Times, 1 Nov1942, and used as a song title by Frank Loesser,1942.

O worship the King, all glorious above; O gratefully sing his power and his love: Our Shield and Defender, the Ancient of Days, Pavilioned in splendour, and girded with praise.

-Grant, Sir Robert
  'O worship the King, all glorious above', collected in Sacred Poems (1839).

When I would make a feast I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks.

-Harington, SirJohn
  Epigrams, bk.1, no.5,'Against  WritersThat Carp at Other Men's Books'.

All things counter, original, spare, strange; Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?) With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim; He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change: Praise him.

-Gerard Manley Hopkins
  'Pied Beauty'.