Admiration Quotes
These are some of the best 'Admiration' quotations and sayings.
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Admiration and familiarity are strangers.
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Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a perpetual succession of miracles rising into view.
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Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
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Admiration must be kept up by the novelty that at first produced it; and how much soever is given, there must always be the impression that more remains.
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Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
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Distance is a great promoter of admiration!
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Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody, and to that person whatever he says has an enhanced value.
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Few men are admired by their servants.
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For fools admire, but men of sense approve.
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No nobler feeling than this, of admiration for one higher than himself, dwells in the breast of man.-It is to this hour, and at all hours, the vivifying influence in man's life.
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The capacity to admire others is not my most fully developed trait.
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The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
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There is a pleasure in admiration; and this it is which properly causeth admiration, when we discover a great deal in an object which we understand to be excellent; and yet we see more beyond that, which our understandings cannot fully reach and comprehend.
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There is a wide difference between admiration and love. The sublime, which is the cause of the former, always dwells on great objects and terrible; the latter on small ones and pleasing; we submit to what we admire, but we love what submits to us: in one case we are forced, in the other we are flattered, into compliance.
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There is much difference between imitating a good man, and counterfeiting him.
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To cultivate sympathy you must be among living beings and thinking about them; to cultivate admiration, among beautiful things and looking at them.
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We always like those who admire us; we do not always like those whom we admire.
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