“Most high, all powerful, all good Lord! All praise is yours, all glory, all honor, and all blessing. To you, alone, Most High, do they belong. No mortal lips are worthy to pronounce your name. Praise be to God.”
Canticle of the Sun
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“The most delightful of all music, that of your own praises.”
Hiero, ch. 3, as translated by Richard Graves in The Whole Works of Xenophon (1832) p. 626).

From the poem "To Sayf Al-Dawla"
Here 'Sword never sheathed' refers to 'Sayf Al-Dawla', whose name is a laqab meaning 'Sword of the Dynasty'. http://samarmedia.tv/en/video/295/al-mutanabi-arabic-poem-with-english/

The libretto of an 18th-century oratorio by Joseph Haydn states in praise of Jehovah. Source: The Watchtower magazine, article: Praise the King of Eternity!, 4/1, 1996.

“All mortals desire themselves to be praised.”
Omnes mortales sese laudarier optant.
As quoted by Augustine of Hippo in De Trinitate, Book XIII, Chapter III