APPLAUSE

Addison, Joseph
Man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and next to escape the censures of the world.—If the last interfere with the first it should be entirely neglected.—But if not, there cannot be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind than to see its own approbation seconded by the applauses of the public.

Bacon, Francis
Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous.

Colton, Caleb C.
Applause is the spur of noble minds; the end and aim of weak ones.

When the million applaud you, seriously ask what harm you have done; when they censure you, what good!

Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it.—If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.

Cowper, William
O popular applause !—What heart  of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms!

Franklin, Benjamin
Applause waits on success.—The fickle multitude, like the light straw that floats on the stream, glide with the current still, and   follow fortune.

More, Hannah
A slowness to applaud betrays a cold temper or an envious spirit.

Whately, Richard
Neither human applause nor human censure is to be taken as the test of truth; but either should set us upon testing ourselves.