{"query": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_144: We do not like to praise, and", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_438802f29aca", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_144: We do not like to praise, and we never praise without a motive.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "We do not like to praise, and we never praise without a motive. Praise is flattery, artful, hidden, delicate, which gratifies differently him who praises and him who is praised. The one takes it as th"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_romans_8_26", "title": "Matthew Henry on Romans 8:26", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Romans 8:26 — The apostle here suggests two privileges more to which true Christians are entitled: - \nI. The help of the Spirit in prayer. While we are in this world, hoping and waiting for what we"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_psalms_135_1", "title": "Matthew Henry on Psalms 135:1", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Psalms 135:1 — Here is, 1. The duty we are called to - to praise the Lord, to praise his name; praise him, and again praise him. We must not only thank him for what he has done for us, but praise h"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_psalms_75_1", "title": "Matthew Henry on Psalms 75:1", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Psalms 75:1 — In these verses,\nI. The psalmist gives to God the praise of his advancement to honour and power, and the other great things he had done for him and for his people Israel (Psa 75:1): U"}, {"id": "card_n_64d4d7258e38", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_085: We often persuade ourselves to love people who are more powerful than we are,...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "We often persuade ourselves to love people who are more powerful than we are, yet interest alone produces our friendship; we do not give our hearts away for the good we wish to do, but for that we exp"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_psalms_47_5", "title": "Matthew Henry on Psalms 47:5", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Psalms 47:5 — We are here most earnestly pressed to praise God, and to sing his praises; so backward are we to this duty that we have need to be urged to it by precept upon precept, and line upon l"}, {"id": "card_n_1e7b3d5641cb", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_320: To praise princes for virtues they do not possess is but to reproach them wit...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "To praise princes for virtues they do not possess is but to reproach them with impunity. [\"Praise undeserved is satire in disguise,\" quoted by Pope from a poem which has not survived, \"The Garland,\" b"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_psalms_119_175", "title": "Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:175", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Psalms 119:175 — David's heart is still upon praising God; and therefore, 1. He prays that God would give him time to praise him: \"Let my soul live, and it shall praise thee, that is, let my life b"}, {"id": "card_n_cd47c4f4b82e", "title": "2 Corinthians 5", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.\n2. For most certainly in this we groan, longing to"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_1_samuel_2_1", "title": "Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 2:1", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On 1 Samuel 2:1 — We have here Hannah's thanksgiving, dictated, not only by the spirit of prayer, but by the spirit of prophecy. Her petition for the mercy she desired we had before (Sa1 1:11), and he"}, {"id": "card_n_8fcb53d51da5", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_027: I said then even now, we measure times as they pass, in order to be able to s...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "I said then even now, we measure times as they pass, in order to be able to say, this time is twice so much as that one; or, this is just so much as that; and so of any other parts of time, which be m"}, {"id": "card_n_fde9cbbe5cd4", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_490: We often go from love to ambition, but we never return from ambition to love.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "We often go from love to ambition, but we never return from ambition to love. [\"Men commence by love, finish by ambition, and do not find a quieter seat while they remain there.\"--La Bruyere: Du Coeur"}, {"id": "card_n_d07403cc62c3", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_198: We exaggerate the glory of some men to detract from that of others, and we sh...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "We exaggerate the glory of some men to detract from that of others, and we should praise Prince Conde and Marshal Turenne much less if we did not want to blame them both. [The allusion to Conde and Tu"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_proverbs_27_14", "title": "Matthew Henry on Proverbs 27:14", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Proverbs 27:14 — Note, 1. It is a great folly to be extravagant in praising even the best of our friends and benefactors. 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Th"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_proverbs_16_29", "title": "Matthew Henry on Proverbs 16:29", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Proverbs 16:29 — Here is another sort of evil men described to us, that we may neither do like them, nor have any thing to do with them. 1. Such as (like Satan) do all the mischief they can by forc"}, {"id": "card_n_c1e3b5bef071", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_420: We often believe we have constancy in misfortune when we have nothing but deb...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "We often believe we have constancy in misfortune when we have nothing but debasement, and we suffer misfortunes without regarding them as cowards who let themselves be killed from fear of defending th"}, {"id": "card_n_85e8bf55be48", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_266: We deceive ourselves if we believe that there are violent passions like ambit...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "We deceive ourselves if we believe that there are violent passions like ambition and love that can triumph over others. Idleness, languishing as she is, does not often fail in being mistress; she usur"}, {"id": "card_n_35661f2d238d", "title": "Imitation of Christ §imit_02_05: We cannot place too little confidence in ourselves, because grace and underst...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "We cannot place too little confidence in ourselves, because grace and understanding are often lacking to us. Little light is there within us, and what we have we quickly lose by negligence. Oftentimes"}]}