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Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it.

— John Masefield

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in retrospective reproaches or repinings.

— Robert Peel

No one can make the most of himself until he looks upon his life as a magnificent possibility, the materials for a great masterpiece, to mar or spoil which would be a great tragedy.

— Orison Swett Marden

In every age and every man there is something to praise as well as to blame.

— James Beattie

Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.

— Charles Baudelaire

Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

— Pericles

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

— Samuel Johnson

A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.

— George Orwell

That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.

— William McKinley

I feel, as never before, how justly, from the dawn of history to the present time, men have paid the homage of their gratitude and admiration to the memory of those who nobly sacrifice their lives, that their fellow-men may live in safety and in honor.

— Edward Everett

✗Opposing Perspectives

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

— Walter Scott