<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=371802" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sonnet: Praise</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, praise me not in a limitless way; <br>O’er-praise puts mind in enshackled a sway, <br>Distorting its performance thereafter; <br>An o’er-enthused mind can’t function better. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The hard-earned, older virtues won o’er years, <br>In moments of flimsy praises by dears, <br>Feels weaken’d from its adverse/ill-effects; <br>Praises any human mind sure infects! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Praise me deservingly and nothing more; <br>Never praises in excessive measures pour; <br>It could inebriate my feeble mind, <br>Unless measured and properly refined. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">’Tis better not to be praised if worthy, <br>Than be o’er-praised, ecstatic and guilty.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Celes">John Celes</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=371802" data-title="Sonnet: Praise de John Celes" data-description="Oh, praise me not in a limitless way; O’er-praise puts mind in enshackled a sway, Distorting its performance thereafter; An o’er-enthused mind can’t function better. The hard-earned, older virtues won o’er years, In moments of flimsy..."></div> </div> </div>

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