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"A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection."
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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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"We reserve our deepest respect and admiration for those who volunteer for service and give their lives to help keep our nation secure."
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"The earth incites the wonder and admiration of man even though he is imperfect and his understanding greatly limited."
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"By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown."
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"But the admiration for Jackson was by no means confined to his own soldiers and to his own section."
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"The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed."
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"Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration."
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"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."
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"Of course, Einstein was a very great scientist indeed, and I have enormous respect for him, and great admiration for the discoveries he made. But he was very committed to a view of the objectivity of the physical world."
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"We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice."
Wisdom
"The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome."
Danger
"Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense."
Confidence
"The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice."
Advice
"A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection."
Admiration
"Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order."
Order
"Every happiness is a hostage to fortune."
Happiness
"Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book."
Solitude
"It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world."
Loss
"Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written."
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