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"Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object."
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"Admiration and familiarity are strangers."
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"What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others."
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"There are charms made only for distant admiration."
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"He was generally aware that he had been blessed in her beauty; even in her usual homespun, knee-deep in mud from her garden, or stained and fierce with the blood of her calling, the curve of her bones spoke to his own marrow, and those whisky eyes could make him drunk with a glance. Besides, the mad collieshangie of her hair made him laugh."
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"Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful."
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"You are a perfect woman, a magical blend of beauty, intelligence, and spirit. Without you, my life is nothing."
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"I see you from afar-fragile and shy as a star gleaming through a cloudy rift."
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"Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt."
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"When a benevolent mind contemplates the republic of Lycurgus, its admiration is mixed with a degree of horror."
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"Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object."
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"The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight."
Parenting
"We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us."
Legacy
"A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of."
Talent
"I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs."
Being
"Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense."
Music
"No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority."
Legal
"There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress."
Nature
"I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: "What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.""
Man
"The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality."
Life
"Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble."
People
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