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• Men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty billows of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, the compass of the ocean, and the circuits of the stars, and pass themselves by.

  Augustine of Hippo

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• Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

  Benjamin Franklin

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• In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace; but the first wonder is the offspring of ignorance, the last is the parent of adoration

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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• Ignorance is the mother of admiration

  George Chapman

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• Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

  Dale Carnegie

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• Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

  Alexander Pope

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• Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.

  William Hazlitt

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  Tags in Contempt, Admiration, Edge, Familiarity

• We must always remember with gratitude and admiration the first sailors who steered their vessels through storms and mists, and increased our knowledge of the lands of ice in the South.

  Roald Amundsen

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• 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.

  Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld

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• To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind

  Theophile Gautier

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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

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• There has also been much love, joy, evidence of admiration, there has never been one without the other.

  Isabelle Adjani

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• Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another’s resemblance to ourselves.

  Ambrose Bierce

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• Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• I shall always esteem it not much to live in a city where the laws do less than men, because that fatherland is desirable where possessions and friends can be securely enjoyed, not where they can be easily taken from you, and friends for few of thems.

  Niccolò Machiavelli

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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 perpetual succession of miracles rising into view.

  Joseph Addison

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

  Joseph Addison

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• The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

  Jean Rostand

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• I always admired Wonder Woman and the Incredible Hulk – but I don’t know if I’d be a very convincing hulk.

  Lucy Liu

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• Admiration begins where acquaintance ceases

  Samuel Johnson

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