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There is an innocence in admiration: it occurs in one who has not yet realized that they might one day be admired.
Friedrich Nietzsche
How useless is painting, which attracts admiration by the resemblance of things, the originals of which we do not admire!
Blaise Pascal
He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her as one sees the sun, without looking.
Leo Tolstoy
Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
Alexander Pope
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
You always admire what you really don't understand.
I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don't know where I would be without it.
Thomas Mann
Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.
Nero Wolfe
The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
Jean Rostand
Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.
Bertrand Russell
To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.
Theophile Gautier
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
Distance is a great promoter of admiration!
Denis Diderot
I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
Orson Scott Card
Admiration spoils all from infancy. Ah! How well said! Ah! How well done! How well-behaved he is! etc.
No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.
Jane Austen
Oh! death will find me long before I tire of watching you.
Rupert Brooke
