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Sunday, December 20, 2009

ADMIRATION

These sentiments are replaced... by several degrees of admiration, love and worship, towards which the ethical feelings ever aspire and in which they ultimately merge.
-J. Martineau

Season your admiration for a while.
-Shakespeare

Our young gentleman... admired this rising divinity and gazed at her with endless delight and wonder.
-Thackeray

Admired as heroes, and as gods obeyed.
-Pope

Examples rather to be admired, than imitated.
-Fuller

It is not a sin to admire beauty; it is a sin to despoil beauty.
-Nida

This spring of action is noble... and I admire it; it is binding and I obey it; it is the dictate of a perfect mind and I revere it.
-J. Martineau

For fools admire, but men of sense approve.
-Pope

Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.
-Addison

We always love those who admire us, and we do not always love those whom we admire.
-La Rochefoucauld

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