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"It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant."
"To cultivate sympathy you must be among living creatures, and thinking about them; and to cultivate admiration, you must be among beautiful things and looking at them."
"Few men are admired by their servants."
"If refined sense, and exalted sense, be not so useful as common sense, their rarity, their novelty, and the nobleness of their objects, make some compensation, and render them the admiration of mankind."
"Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man."
"She hardly knew how to suppose that she could be an object of admiration to so great a man."
"Admiration bestowed upon any one but ourselves is always tedious."
"Tis much to gain universal admiration; more, universal love."
"Admiration spoils all from infancy."
"I yield to nobody in my admiration for God, but he's no good in bed."
"False judges are held up in the world's admiration and I alone know the true ones."
"The university most worthy of rational admiration is that one in which your lonely thinker can feel himself lonely, most positively furthered, and most richly fed"
"Sir, as a man advances in life, he gets what is better than admiration, - judgement, to estimate things at their true value."
"ever since I met you I have admired you more than any girl...I have ever met since...I met you."
"I was trapped in admiration for what I had once admired, as a fly in amber remains the captive of some long-vanished pine."
"Those are brave men," he told Ser Balon in admiration. "Let's go kill them."
"While I disagree with our presence in Iraq and Afghanistan, I have nothing but respect and admiration for the men and women deployed in these places."
"Catherine hoped at least to pass uncensured through the crowd. As for admiration, it was always very welcome when it came, but she did not depend on it."
"I have such admiration for single mothers. I simply don't comprehend how you'd cope with that intensity, the lack of breaks, ever, on your own."
