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“Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.”
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
“Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate”
William Arthur Ward
“She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not care to be herself.”
Anais Nin
“To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind”
Theophile Gautier
“If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.”
Katharine Hepburn
“The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.”
“I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some bline, random disaster, or some sudden disease, the addict has the comfort of knowing what will most likely wait for him down the road. He's taken some control over his ultimate fate, and his addiction keeps the cause of death from being a total surprise.”
Chuck Palahniuk
“The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.”
Carl Sandburg
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