Admiration Quotes

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Not to admire, is all the art I know To make men happy, or to keep them so. Thus Horace wrote we all know long ago; And thus Pope quotes the precept to re-teach From his translation; but had none admired, Would Pope have sung, or Horace been inspired? (Quote by - Lord Byron)
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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. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
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To admire nothing, (as most are wont to do;) Is the only method that I know, To make men happy, and to keep them so. (Quote by - Thomas Creech)
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The king himself has follow'd her When she has walk'd before. (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)
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Heroes themselves had fallen behind! --Whene'er he went before. (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)
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We always love those who admire us, and we do not always love those whom we admire. (Quote by - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld)
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On dit que dans ses amours Il fut caresse des belles, Qui le suivirent toujours, Tant qu'il marcha devant elles. (Quote by - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld)
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For fools admire, but me of sense approve. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
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Season your admiration for a while With an attent ear. . . . (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
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Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt. (Quote by - Minna Thomas Antrim)
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The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. . . . The least energizing emotion to write out of is admiration . . . because the basic feeling that goes with admiration is a passive contemplative mood. (Quote by - Susan Sontag)
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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 new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
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What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others. (Quote by - Joseph Priestley)
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. (Quote by - Francis H. Bradley)
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Admiration is the daughter of ignorance. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
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We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire. (Quote by - Francois De La Rochefoucauld)
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We live by our imagination, our admirations, and our sentiments. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)
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Distance is a great promoter of admiration! (Quote by - Denis Diderot)
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You always admire what you really don't understand. (Quote by - Eleanor Roosevelt)
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Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities. (Quote by - Elizabeth Bowen)
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The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why. (Quote by - Jean Rostand)
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The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why. (Quote by - Jean Rostand)
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Fools admire, but men of sense approve. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
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A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him. (Quote by - Nicolas Boileau-despréaux)
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Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
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