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Admirable Quotes

Admire the world for never ending on you -- as you would an opponent, without taking your eyes away from him, or walking away. Annie Dillard
Evan Esar quote: "Admiration: Our feeling of delight that another person..."
Admiration: Our feeling of delight that another person resembles us. Evan Esar
Admire and adore the Author of the telescopic universe, love and esteem the work, do all in your power to lessen ill, and increase good, but never assume to comprehend. John Adams
Benjamin Franklin quote: "Admiration is the daughter of ignorance."
Admiration is the daughter of ignorance. Benjamin Franklin
Admire a small ship, but put your freight in a large one; for the larger the load, the greater will be the profit upon profit. Hesiod
George Sand quote: "Admiration and familiarity are strangers."
Admiration and familiarity are strangers. George Sand
Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age. Bertrand Russell
Ambrose Bierce quote: "Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while..."
Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking. Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce quote: "Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance..."
Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves. Ambrose Bierce
Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it..."
Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it. Friedrich Nietzsche
Joseph Addison quote: "Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately..."
Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object. Joseph Addison
Long looking with admiration produces change. From your heroes you pick up mannerisms and phrases and tones of voice and facial expressions and habits and demeanors and convictions and beliefs. The more admirable the hero is and the more intense your admiration is, the more profound will be your transformation. In the case of Jesus, he is infinitely admirable, and our admiration rises to the most absolute worship. Therefore, when we behold him as we should, the change is profound. John Piper
If they think you admire them, they will admire you because of your good taste, and when they admire you, you have an illusion for a moment that there's something to admire. Graham Greene
The difference between an admirer and a follower still remains, no matter where you are. The admirer never makes any true sacrifices. He always plays it safe. Though in words, phrases, songs, he is inexhaustible about how highly he prizes Christ, he renounces nothing, gives up nothing, will not reconstruct his life, will not be what he admires, and will not let his life express what it is he supposedly admires. Soren Kierkegaard
The last achievement of the serious admirer is to stop immediately putting to work the energies aroused by, filling up the space opened by, what is admired. Thereby talented admirers give themselves permission to breathe, to breathe more deeply. But for that it is necessary to go beyond avidity; to identify with something beyond achievement, beyond the gathering of power. Susan Sontag

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