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Distance is a great promoter of admiration!
Distance is a great promoter of admiration!
Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. . . . The least energizing emotion read more
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.
Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed read more
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.
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.
Admiration and familiarity are strangers.
Admiration and familiarity are strangers.
We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.
We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.
Admiration begins where acquaintance ceases
Admiration begins where acquaintance ceases
We live by our imagination, our admirations, and our sentiments.
We live by our imagination, our admirations, and our sentiments.
