Quotes by admiration
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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
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Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
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You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers.
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A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.
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A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.
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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.
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Admiration spoils all from infancy. Ah! How well said! Ah! How well done! How well-behaved he is! etc.
Source: Pensees (1669) -
Admiration: Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
Source: The Devil's Dictionary -
As biologists, we contemplate with admiration and awe the wondrous array of sophisticated cell interactions and recognitions evolved in the T cell immune system, which must be a model for other similarly complex biological systems of highly differentiated organisms.
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Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.
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Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
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Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.
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How useless is painting, which attracts admiration by the resemblance of things, the originals of which we do not admire!
Source: Pensees (1669) -
I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don't know where I would be without it.
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If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
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