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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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"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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"The earth incites the wonder and admiration of man even though he is imperfect and his understanding greatly limited."
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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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"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."
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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."
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"Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb."
Grief


"By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown."
Admiration


"Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art."
Nature


"Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using."
Love


"The stars that have most glory have no rest."
Glory


"We come to know best what men are, in their worse jeopardizes."
Man


"The wise are above books."
Books


"Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been."
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"And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world."
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