Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.
quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
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Unjust attacks on public men do them more good than unmerited praise. They are hurt less by undeserved censure than by undeserved commendation. Abuse helps; often praise hurts.
quote by Rutherford B. Hayes
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The Undeserving Cases
When praises are thrown on me
I know that I have undeserved.
When abuses are slung at me
I feel that I have undeserved.
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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Nemesis
a painful response to another's
undeserved good fortune-
envy,
the monster is taking you
to the land of
no return
it is where people
on their best apparel
burn themselves
to hell
the ashes speak
on names that must be forgotten
where can pleasure
be
at another's undeserved
success?
poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
quote by Alexander Pope
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“A Powerful Thing”
What are you going to do with the power, the power you hold in your mind, are you going to make the right choices today? Don't go at it blind!
For this power is a great gift from above, it was given to us through an undeserved kindness called LOVE!
So don't abuse of it, make it worth while, by making good choices and staying away from what is vile!
Use this power which holds a strength all its own, in order to become an adult that is full grown! Living this way, you will have your fill. By using this power, known as your free will!
poem by Alberto Lee
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Feelings.
FEELINGS, THE EMOTIONAL KIND
THAT EXPOSES WOUNDS AND HURT OF THE MIND
GUILT IS SO STRONG
IT MAY JUST BE A MATTER THAT YOU WERE WRONG
THAT UNDESERVED COMMENT
THE RESPONSE YOU HADN'T MEANT
ACCEPTING BLAME
WHEN IT APPEARS TO BE A GAME
THE NEED TO EXPLAIN HOW YOU FELT
REMEMBERING, THIS OLD MAN, IN THE PAST WOULD GIVE YOU A BELT.
poem by Brian Roy Skyers
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Undeserved punishment is better than that which is deserved.
Who Is God, That God Needs To Be Praised?
WHO IS GOD THAT GOD NEEDS TO BE PRAISED?
Who is God that God needs to be praised?
Who are we that we are worthy of praising God?
Isn’t this Praise a form of flattery?
And how can God possibly want or need it?
We may need to praise-
Out of Gratitude
We may need to thank God
For all our blessings,
But does God want us to be flatterers
Who think to be rewarded for our praise?
I need to thank God
In that need is the Praise
But Praise alone
Makes both God and me
Seem unworthy.
I thank God
For having given me
This Poem.
If it is a poem.
poem by Shalom Freedman
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Words of Fire
Words of Fire,
Words of Power,
With the force of a steam train,
With the speed of a bullet,
You hit me.
You knocked me off my high horse,
Upon the ground I lay,
Unable to move,
Such is the power of your word,
You hit me.
When first I read your word,
Words of Fire,
Words of Power,
The threat of culpable damnation,
The gift of undeserved salvation.
You are the living Word,
The only word,
Who was,
Who is,
Who is to come.
Words of Fire,
Words of Power,
Words of Eternity,
Words of Fire,
That burn within my heart.
From my youth,
My hair now grey,
Those words of Fire,
Those words of Power,
My life maintained.
poem by Steven Reeve
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I can't talk to a man who bears an undeserved animosity towards ferrets.
quote by Graham Chapman
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Role To Play
Spate has a role to play
No matter positive or negative.
Spate is a spate and spate
Play role in conspiracy.
Praise not war
It is undeserved
Whether external or internal.
Actually nothing is hard
It is our brain that
Think about it and
Time passed on its own.
poem by Gajanan Mishra
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The Irony Of My Society
the liars are well placed on their high thrones
the incompetents and the misfits dancing on their undeserved success,
the filthy rich have power
the leaders corrupted
and yet we pray to the same God
and yet we receive the blessings from the same God.
meanwhile, the innocent ones are convicted and electrocuted
meanwhile the poor gets to become as poorer as they were once
evil reigns and there seems to be no end to this,
the good ones starve and have fears for breakfast
the bad eggs hatch and fed and pampered.
poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.
quote by Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.
quote by William Hazlitt
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Envy, among other ingredients, has a mixture of love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good fortune.
quote by William Hazlitt
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Today we no longer regard the universe as the cause of our own undeserved troubles but perhaps, on the contrary, as the last refuge from the mismanagement of our earthly affairs.
quote by Rudolf Arnheim
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In view of the meaning given to this honor in the community to which I belong, I should abstain from the undeserved prize that has been awarded to me. Do not meet my voluntary refusal with ill will.
quote by Boris Pasternak
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