Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
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To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.
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I have a prejudice against people who print things in a foreign language and add no translation. When I am the reader, and the other considers me able to do the translating myself, he pays me the quite a nice compliment but if he would do the translating for me I would try to get along without the compliment. (A Tramp Abroad,1880)
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Hell is God's great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.
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Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger constant in spirit, not swerving with the blood, garnish'd and deck'd in modest compliment, not working with the eye without the ear, and but in purged judgement trusting neither Such and so finely bolted didst thou seem.
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Some people pay a compliment as if they expected a receipt.
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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
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A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.
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The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when someone asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
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I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are surethat is all that agnosticism means.
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If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.
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Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to criti
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I?ve been offered a lot but I want to stay away from romance, comedies and fluffy work. I met Stephen Spielberg at a breast cancer benefit and he explained that he?d seen me on Saturday Night Live and thought I was ready for a movie. He said,?You go to the ledge and are unafraid to jump off.? That was the biggest compliment to me because he was saying I was free.
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Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old
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There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering
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To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.
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If it does stand out [my clothing], then I guess it's a compliment, but I just wear whatever feels comfortable.
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A compliment is verbal sunshine
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I think a compliment ought always to precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception
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Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke
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To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment
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Now, in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are.
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An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.
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