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• Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.

  Bertrand Russell

  Birthday, Age, Dams

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Unpopular Essays”, p.62, Routledge

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• The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

  F. H. Bradley

  Happiness, Secret, Admire

  Aphorisms (1930) no. 33

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• We live by admiration, hope and love.

  William Wordsworth

  Love, Hope, Appreciation

  William Wordsworth (1854). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth”, p.587

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• We live by our imagination, our admirations, and our sentiments.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Imagination, Live By, Sentiments

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• Season your admiration for a while.

  William Shakespeare

  Horatio, Seasons

  William Shakespeare (1832). “Hamlet, and As you like it, a specimen of a new ed. of Shakespeare [by T. Caldecott]. by T. Caldecott”, p.20

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• Those who are formed to win general admiration are seldom calculated to bestow individual happiness.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Winning, Individual Happiness, Individual

  Marguerite Countess of Blessington, Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1839). “Desultory Thoughts and Reflections”, p.19

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• She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.

  Anais Nin

  Self Esteem, Love Yourself, Eye

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• Few men are admired by their servants.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Servant

  "Essais". Book by Michel de Montaigne, Book III, ch. 2, "Of Repentance", c. 1592.

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• We always like those who admire us.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Admire

  Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims, 1665 - 1678.

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• In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace; but the first wonder is the offspring of ignorance, the last is the parent of adoration.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Philosophy, Ignorance, Parent

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge, John McVickar (1854). “Coleridge's Aids to reflection: with the author's last corrections”, p.177

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• Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Antiques, Natural, Aeroplanes

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.134, Harvard University Press

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• The capacity to admire others is not my most fully developed trait.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Capacity, Admire, Traits

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• We live by Admiration, Hope, and Love;
  And, even as these are well and wisely fixed,
  In dignity of being we ascend.

  William Wordsworth

  Life, And Love, Dignity

  William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.482

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• It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.

  Margaret Fuller

  Ambitious, Genius, Talent

  Margaret Fuller, Arthur Buckminster Fuller (1874). “Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke”, p.110

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• A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

  Jane Austen

  Love, Funny, Romantic

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.104, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• There are charms made only for distant admiration.

  Samuel Johnson

  Charm, Made

  Samuel Johnson (1795). “The Lives of the English Poets: and a Criticism on Their Works. By Samuel Johnson”, p.85

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• I don't deal well with admiration if it's for something I haven't done. Other than exist.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Done, Deals, Wells

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Aggravation, Deterioration, Proof

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.320, Transaction Publishers

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• I have a great deal of respect and admiration for people who put themselves on the line.

  Major Owens

  People, Lines, Deals

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• Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Strong, Quality

  "Mixed Opinions and Maxims" by Friedrich Nietzsche, aphorism 370, "The Danger in Admiration", 1879.

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• To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.

  Theophile Gautier

  Love, Heart, Carpe Diem

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

  Ann Landers

  Dog, Witty, Cat

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• I leave CNN with the utmost respect, love and admiration for the company and everyone who works here. This has been my family and shared endeavor for the past 27 years, and I am forever grateful and proud of all that we have accomplished.

  Christiane Amanpour

  Grateful, Past, Cnn

  "Christiane Amanpour quits CNN" by Mark Sweney, www.theguardian.com. March 19, 2010.

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• You can sell millions of records, be showered with all this love and admiration and still feel despised and unwanted. That's what I felt. I've made a lot of mistakes I'm not proud of.

  Scott Stapp

  Mistake, Proud, Records

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• Maybe you are the "cool" generation. If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration.

  Kingman Brewster, Jr.

  Mean, Stay Calm, Generations

  Baccalaureate address as President of Yale, June 12, 1966.

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