Chapman Cohen (1868–1954) British atheist and secularist writer and lecturer
p. 68 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89009314162&view=1up&seq=72 <br class="br">Determinism or Free-will? (1912)
“…in this world, often, there is nothing to praise but no one to blame…”
“On Preparing to Read Kipling”, p. 135
A Sad Heart at the Supermarket: Essays & Fables (1962)
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“It is vain to apportion praise and blame.”
Simone de Beauvoir book The Second Sex
The Second Sex (1949)
Context: It is vain to apportion praise and blame. The truth is that if the vicious circle is so hard to break, it is because the two sexes are each the victim at once of the other and of itself. Between two adversaries confronting each other in their pure liberty, an agreement could be easily reached: the more so as the war profits neither. But the complexity of the whole affair derives from the fact that each camp is giving aid and comfort to the enemy; woman is pursuing a dream of submission, man a dream of identification. Want of authenticity does not pay: each blames the other for the unhappiness he or she has incurred in yielding to the temptations of the easy way; what man and woman loathe in each other is the shattering frustration of each one's own bad faith and baseness.
“Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.”
Virginia Woolf book Jacob's Room
Source: Jacob's Room
“Thus neither the praise nor the blame is our own.”
William Cowper (1731–1800) (1731–1800) English poet and hymnodist
"From a Letter to the Rev. Mr. Newton", line 21. (1782).
“I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly.”
Catherine the Great (1729–1796) Empress of Russia
As quoted in The Historians' History of the World (1904) by Henry Smith Williams, p. 423
As quoted in The Affairs of Women: A Modern Miscellany (2006) by Colin Bingham, p. 367
Variant: I praise loudly. I blame softly.
“To govern the state by law is to praise the right and blame the wrong.”
Han Fei (-279–-232 BC) Chinese philosopher
from "Having Regulations—A Memorandum" in The Complete Works of Han Fei Tzu, Volume I, Arthur Probsthain, London, 1939. Translated by W.K. Liao.
Clive James (1939–2019) Australian author, critic, broadcaster, poet, translator and memoirist
'Introduction'
Essays and reviews, Glued to the Box (1983)
“The fault is in the one who blames. Spirit sees nothing to criticize.”
Rumi (1207–1273) Iranian poet
As quoted in Rumi Wisdom: Daily Teachings from the Great Sufi Master (2000) by Timothy Freke
Variant: The fault is in the blamer — Spirit sees nothing to criticize.