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I have commenced my auspicious reign and am in quiet possession of the Presidential Mansion... this winter I intend to do something in the way of entertaining that shall be the admiration and talk of all Washington world.
Author:
Julia Tyler
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Admiration and familiarity are strangers.
Author:
George Sand
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The earth incites the wonder and admiration of man even though he is imperfect and his understanding greatly limited.
Author:
Joseph Rutherford
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We reserve our deepest respect and admiration for those who volunteer for service and give their lives to help keep our nation secure.
Author:
Mitt Romney
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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.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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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.
Author:
Joseph Priestley
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I don't deal well with admiration if it's for something I haven't done. Other than exist.
Author:
Lisa Presley
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Of course, Einstein was a very great scientist indeed, and I have enormous respect for him, and great admiration for the discoveries he made. But he was very committed to a view of the objectivity of the physical world.
Author:
John Polkinghorne
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There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Admittedly great though these reasons be, they are not the principal grounds, that is, those which may rightfully claim for themselves the privilege of the highest admiration.
Author:
Giovanni Mirandola
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Cats have it all - admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it.
Author:
Rod McKuen
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My admiration for the phenomenon of Alcoholics Anonymous is boundless.
Author:
Mercedes McCambridge
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I am convinced that our movement will be more demoralized and weakened by blind and uncritical admiration than by frank admission of past mistakes.
Author:
Marie Louise
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Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
Author:
Ann Landers
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Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
Author:
Ann Landers
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There are charms made only for distant admiration.
Author:
Samuel Johnson
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But the admiration for Jackson was by no means confined to his own soldiers and to his own section.
Author:
Daniel Hill
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A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.
Author:
Arthur Helps
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Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.
Author:
William Hazlitt
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Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.
Author:
Ralph Emerson
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When a benevolent mind contemplates the republic of Lycurgus, its admiration is mixed with a degree of horror.
Author:
Thomas Day
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By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.
Author:
Samuel Daniel
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Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
Author:
Charles Colton
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The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
Author:
Jean Cocteau
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Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.
Author:
Marcus Cicero
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Maybe you are the "cool" generation If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration.
Author:
Kingman Brewster, Jr.
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Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
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Ambrose Bierce
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No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.
Author:
Jane Austen
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Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.
Author:
Minna Antrim
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Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.
Author:
Joseph Addison
