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Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.
Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.
To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind
To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
For fools admire, but me of sense approve.
For fools admire, but me of sense approve.
We live by our imagination, our admirations, and our sentiments.
We live by our imagination, our admirations, and our sentiments.
No nobler feeling than this, of admiration for one higher than
himself, dwells in the breast of man. It read more
No nobler feeling than this, of admiration for one higher than
himself, dwells in the breast of man. It is to this hour, and at
all hours, the vivifying influence in man's life.
"Not to admire, is all the art I know
(Plain truth, dear Murray, needs few flowers of speech)
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"Not to admire, is all the art I know
(Plain truth, dear Murray, needs few flowers of speech)
To make men happy, or to keep them so."
(So take it in the very words of Creech)
Thus Horace wrote we all know long ago;
And thus Pope quotes the precept to re-teach
From his translation; but had none admired,
Would Pope have sung, or Horace been inspired?
The king himself has follow'd her
When she has walk'd before.
The king himself has follow'd her
When she has walk'd before.
