Quotes 41 till 60 of 69.
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The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent, and is modest about it.
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The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends; never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can; to hearken to what is said and to answer to the purpose.
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The jargon of these sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner.
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The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.
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The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
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There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.
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Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph.
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Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.
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Tina Turner is someone that I admire, because she made her strength feminine and sexy.
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To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration.
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Transform jealousy to admiration, and what you admire will become part of your life.
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We admire people to the extent that we cannot explain what they do, and the word admire then means marvel at.
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We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.
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We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.
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We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.
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We tend to admire the people in our society who have accumulated such wealth as to seem somehow great. But we shouldn't forget that it was the everyday working class man who made this country great.
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What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire.
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