praised quotes

One morning, as I was sitting by the fire, a great cloud came over me, and a temptation beset me, and I sate still† And as I sate still under it and let it alone, a living hope rose in me, and a true voice arose in me which cried:There is a living God who made all things. And immediately the cloud and temptation vanished away, and the life rose over it all, and my heart was glad, and I praised the living God.

- George Fox
  Journal of George Fox.

There was ever more in him to be praised than to be pardoned.

- Ben Jonson
Of Shakespeare. Timber: or Discoveries made upon Men and Matter (published1640).

And they praised him to his face with their courtly foreign grace; But he rose upon their decks, and he cried: 'I have fought for Queen and Faith like a valiant man and true; I have only done my dutyas a man is bound to do: With a joyful spirit I Sir Richard Grenville die!' And he fell upon their decks, and he died.

-Tennyson
  'The Revenge', stanza13, l.99^104.