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Admiration
Between flattery and admiration
there often flows a river of contempt.
?Minna Thomas Antrim
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.
?Susan Sontag
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.
?Joseph Addison
What I have known with respect to
myself, has tended much to lessen
both my admiration,
and my contempt, of others.
?Joseph Priestley
The secret of happiness is to
admire without desiring.
?Francis H. Bradley
Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
?Benjamin Franklin
We always love those who admire
us; we do not always
love those whom we admire.
?Francois De La Rochefoucauld
We live by our imagination, our
admirations, and our sentiments.
?Ralph Waldo Emerson
Animals do not admire each other. A
horse does not admire its companion.
?Blaise Pascal
Distance is a great
promoter of admiration!
?Denis Diderot
You always admire what
you really don't understand.
?Eleanor Roosevelt
Some people are molded by their
admirations, others by their hostilities.
?Elizabeth Bowen
The only things one can admire
at length are those one
admires without knowing why.
?Jean Rostand
