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"A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection."
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"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."
"If a man admires a woman he had something in his mind that he would like to carry further. If a woman admires a man, she had definitely made up her mind."
"Admiration and familiarity are strangers."
"...would not exchange this one little English girl for the Grand Turk's whole seraglio, gazelle-eyes, houri forms, and all!"
"When a benevolent mind contemplates the republic of Lycurgus, its admiration is mixed with a degree of horror."
"She reflected she must be completely besotted with Peter, if his laughter could hallow an aspidistra."
"I don't deal well with admiration if it's for something I haven't done. Other than exist."
"There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day."
"Maybe you are the "cool" generation If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration."
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"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."
"The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome."
"There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance."
"Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment."
"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."
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