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• A man who admires a fine woman, has yet not more reason to wish himself her husband, than one who admired the Hesperian fruit, would have had to wish himself the dragon that kept it.

  Alexander Pope

  Husband, Women, Dragons

  Alexander Pope, William Roscoe (1824). “The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq. with Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks”, p.314

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• It is natural to admire and revere really great men. They hallow the nation to which they belong, and lift up not only all who live in their time, but those who live after them. Their great example becomes the common heritage of their race; and their great deeds and great thoughts are the most glorious legacies of mankind.

  Samuel Smiles

  Men, Race, Example

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.21

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• First black president ever, and to be living while it happened - that's a good part of history. That's probably the biggest person I admire right now.

  Meek Mill

  Black, President, Firsts

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Sometimes a movie series that becomes popular can be a blessing and curse because you get known for that. People don't give you a chance, after that... I'm a big proponent of getting somebody that you always admire and giving them a chance to do something else because they can redefine themselves.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Blessing, Giving, People

  Source: collider.com

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• The actor shouldn't edit themselves or be anxious. And the actors that I admire are always the ones who are inventive and their imaginative life in free-willing. It's a director's job to go, "No here, don't do that, go there."

  Ralph Fiennes

  Jobs, Directors, Actors

  "Ralph Fiennes Talks THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL, Collaborating with Wes Anderson, If He Will Direct More Shakespeare, and More in Berlin". Interview, collider.com. February 10, 2014.

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• There are plenty of dead scientists I admire, but I can't think of any living ones. This is probably because it is only in retrospect that one can see who made the important contributions.

  Stephen Hawking

  Thinking, Important, Retrospect

  "Gods of science: Stephen Hawking and Brian Cox discuss mind over matter". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2010.

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• I always admire people who have passion.

  Lesley Nicol

  Passion, People

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• Who does not more admire Cicero as an author than as a consul of Rome?

  Joseph Addison

  Rome, Doe

  Joseph Addison, Henry George Bohn, Richard Hurd (1877). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.48

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• I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Christian, Religious

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• A lot of people would say 'sexy' is about the body. But to me, 'sexy' is a woman with confidence. I admire women who have very little fear.

  Allegra Versace

  Sexy, People, Body

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• I admire people who overcome obstacles or who have to commit - I've always really admired commitment, whether it be a commitment to living or a commitment to love. People who commit to a moment. People who are not somewhere else, but in the room with you.

  Anne-Marie Duff

  Commitment, Somewhere Else, People

  Interview with Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2011.

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• I need to end up with someone who is strong, intelligent, independent, someone I really admire - sensitive, sensuous, warm, a sense of humor.

  Pam Dawber

  Strong, Independent, Intelligent

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• I admire fashion and I respect it greatly, but I don't necessarily follow trends. I never really have. I just wear what I like to wear. I really like colors, and there are some things I wear and don't care what anybody says about it being in style or not. I wear it anyway.

  Condola Rashad

  Fashion, Color, Style

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• I wonder is it because men are cowards in heart that they admire bravery so much, and place military valor so far beyond every other quality for reward and worship.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Courage, Military, Heart

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1865). “Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero”, p.96

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• He who meanly admires a mean thing is a snob--perhaps that is a safe definition of the character.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Character, Mean, Safe

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• All men do not admire and delight in the same objects.

  Horace

  Men, Delight, Objects

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• You admire, Vacerra, only the poets of old and praise only those who are dead. Pardon me, I beseech you, Vacerra, if I think death too high a price to pay for your praise.

  Martial

  Thinking, Pay, Praise

  Martial (1871). “The Epigrams of Martial”, p.384

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• The pride of ancestry is a superstructure of the most imposing height, but resting on the most flimsy foundation. It is ridiculous enough to observe the hauteur with which the old nobility look down on the new. The reason of this puzzled me a little, until I began to reflect that most titles are respectable only because they are old; if new, they would be despised, because all those who now admire the grandeur of the stream would see nothing but the impurity of the source.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Pride, Foundation, Titles

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”

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• I think professionally I admire people and the way they've handled their careers and being in the media. But the people that I used to inspire me and keep me going were my peers in Toronto - I would see the same girls going to audition after audition, and their resilience to do it again, and I found that inspiring.

  Anna Silk

  Girl, Thinking, Media

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• Men will imitate and admire his unmoved firmness, his inflexible conscience for the right; and yet his gentleness, as tender as a woman's, his moderation of spirit, which not all the heat of party could inflame, nor all the jars and disturbances of this country shake out of its place: I swear you to an emulation of his justice, his moderation, and his mercy.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Country, Party, Men

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• The same principle leads us to neglect a man of merit that induces us to admire a fool.
  [Fr., Du meme fonds dont on neglige un homme de merite l'on sait encore admirer un sot.]

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, Principles, Fool

  "Les Caractères", XII, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 510-11,

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• Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice.

  Honore de Balzac

  Role Models, Envy, Emulation

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• In love, what a woman mistakes for disgust is actually clearsightedness. If she does not admire a man, she scorns him.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Mistake, Men

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• We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves. When we see the martyr to virtue, subject as he is to the infirmities of a man, yet suffering the tortures of a demon, and bearing them with the magnanimity of a God, do we not behold a heroism that angels may indeed surpass, but which they cannot imitate, and must admire.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Humility, Angel, Men

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.212

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• I like owls. I admire their intransigent spirit. I have respected them deeply ever since I met a baby owl in a wood, when it fell over dead, apparently from sheer temper, because I dared to approach it. It defied me first, and then died. I have never forgotten the horror and shame I experienced when that soft fluffy thing (towards which I had nothing but the most humanitarian motives) fell dead from rage at my feet.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Baby, Feet, Owl

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