„Many of the bravest never are known, and get no praise. [But]that does not lessen their beauty…“

— Louisa May Alcott

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„There are more useful systems developed in languages deemed awful than in languages praised for being beautiful--many more.“
— Bjarne Stroustrup
„Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.“
— Marcus Aurelius
„I begin to get a little acquainted with my own strength and weakness. Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.“
— John Keats
„In the end, like so many beautiful promises in our lives, that dinner date never came to be.“
— Haruki Murakami
„Be praised, my Lord, through Sister Moon and the stars; in the heavens you have made them, precious and beautiful.“
— Francis of Assisi