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• You always admire what you really don't understand.

  Blaise Pascal

  Inspirational, Fake People, Appreciation

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• Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.

  Minna Antrim

  Rivers, Flow, Flattery

  "Naked Truth and Veiled Allusions" by Minna Antrim, (p. 1061), 1901.

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• Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration.

  Apuleius

  Winning, Contempt, Familiarity

  "On the God of Socrates". Ch. 4,

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• That wonderful book, while it obtains admiration from the most fastidious critics, is loved by those who are too simple to admire it.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Love, Book, Simple

  "On Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress" by Thomas B. Macaulay, 1831.

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• The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hero, Soul, Youth

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.99, Library of America

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• Admiration involves a glorious obliquity of vision.

  Max Beerbohm

  Vision, Glorious

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• How vain painting is, exciting admiration by its resemblance to things of which we do not admire the originals.

  Blaise Pascal

  Painting, Vain, Admire

  Pensees no. 74 (1658)

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• To cultivate sympathy you must be among living creatures, and thinking about them; and to cultivate admiration, you must be among beautiful things and looking at them.

  John Ruskin

  Beautiful, Thinking, Creatures

  John Ruskin (1872). “The Two Paths: Being Lectures on Art, and Its Application to Decoration and Manufacture, Delivered in 1858-9”, p.125

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• Admiration is the basis of ignorance.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Ignorance, Bases

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• Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Looks, Longing

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.274, Hamilton Books

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• Admiration must be continued by that novelty which first produces it; and how much soever is given, there must always be reason to imagine that more remains.

  Samuel Johnson

  Firsts, Novelty, Imagine

  Samuel Johnson (1820). “The Rambler”, p.541

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• And as a child I was filled with passionate admiration for acts of civic courage I had seen performed by an elderly military doctor, who was a friend of my family.

  Rene Cassin

  Children, Military, Doctors

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• Military officers from different countries, when they meet each other, tend to sort of fall in love, become mutual admiration societies, at the expense of realities.

  William Eldridge Odom

  Country, Falling In Love, Military

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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.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Respect, Men, Feelings

  Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Sartor Resartus”, p.193

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• Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.

  Rex Stout

  Wealth, Fortitude, Advantages And Disadvantages

  Rex Stout (2011). “The Red Box”, p.88, Crimeline

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• We always admire the other person more after we've tried to do his job.

  William Feather

  Appreciation, Jobs, History

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• As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children.

  John Adams

  Love, Children, Hero

  John Adams, Margaret A. Hogan (2007). “My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams”, p.165, Harvard University Press

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• Admiration begins where acquaintance ceases

  Samuel Johnson

  Acquaintance, Cease

  Samuel Johnson (1968). “Essays from the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler”, p.128, Yale University Press

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• I feel, as never before, how justly, from the dawn of history to the present time, men have paid the homage of their gratitude and admiration to the memory of those who nobly sacrifice their lives, that their fellow-men may live in safety and in honor.

  Edward Everett

  Gratitude, Memories, Grateful

  Svend Petersen, Edward Everett (1963). “The Gettysburg addresses: the story of two orations”

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• A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Hope, Respect, Students

  William Lyon Phelps (1912). “Teaching in School and College”

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• Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

  Alexander Pope

  Men, Stupidity, Criticism

  'An Essay on Criticism' (1711) l. 390

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• A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.

  Arthur Helps

  Mixtures, Recipes, Affection

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• For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them.

  Robert B. Parker

  Father, Grew Up, Aeroplanes

  Robert B. Parker (2009). “Early Autumn”, p.4, Dell

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• My admiration for the phenomenon of Alcoholics Anonymous is boundless.

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Alcoholics Anonymous, Phenomenon, Boundless

  Mercedes McCambridge (1982). “The Quality of Mercy”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.

  Thomas Mann

  Horse, Animal, Doe

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