Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

I'll privily away; I love the people, But do not like to stage me to their eyes; Though it do well, I do not relish well Their loud applause and aves vehement, Nor do I think th ...

If thou couldst, doctor, cast The water of my land, find her disease, And purge it to a sound and pristine health, I would applaud thee to the very echo, That should applaud you ...

Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause.

The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.

The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.

The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world, is the highest applause.

We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.

With these shreds They vented their complainings, which being answered And a petition granted them, a strange one, To break the heart of generosity, And make bold power look pal ...