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"Admittedly great though these reasons be, they are not the principal grounds, that is, those which may rightfully claim for themselves the privilege of the highest admiration."
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"Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt."

"But the admiration for Jackson was by no means confined to his own soldiers and to his own section."

"The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed."

"Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration."

"Mister, when I see my first lady angel, if God ever sees fit to show me one, it'll be her wings not her face that'll make my mouth fall open. I've already seen the prettiest face that ever could be."

"I don't deal well with admiration if it's for something I haven't done. Other than exist."

"I have commenced my auspicious reign and am in quiet possession of the Presidential Mansion... this winter I intend to do something in the way of entertaining that shall be the admiration and talk of all Washington world."

"I like to see you fully naked like the complete moon."

"She reflected she must be completely besotted with Peter, if his laughter could hallow an aspidistra."

"Indians have a big problem with alcohol and drugs. I grew up with an admiration for their culture and was sensitive to their problems."
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"The Pythagoreans degrade impious men into brutes and, if one is to believe Empedocles, even into plants."

"And if, happy in the lot of no created thing, he withdraws into the center of his own unity, his spirit, made one with God, in the solitary darkness of God, who is set above all things, shall surpass them all."

"Spiritual beings, either from the beginning or soon thereafter, become what they are to be for ever and ever."

"For why should we not admire more the angels themselves and the blessed choirs of heaven?"

"It was not the part of His kindly love that he who was to praise God's divine generosity in regard to others should be compelled to condemn it in regard to himself."

"But in its final creation it was not the part of the Father's power to fail as though exhausted. It was not the part of His wisdom to waver in a needful matter through poverty of counsel."

"God the Father, the supreme Architect, had already built this cosmic home we behold, the most sacred temple of His godhead, by the laws of His mysterious wisdom."

"Whatever seeds each man cultivates will grow to maturity and bear in him their own fruit. If they be vegetative, he will be like a plant."

"On man when he came into life the Father conferred the seeds of all kinds and the germs of every way of life."

"But, when the work was finished, the Craftsman kept wishing that there were someone to ponder the plan of so great a work, to love its beauty, and to wonder at its vastness."
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