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    Nat Parson says it's the devil's mark." "Nat Parson's a gobshite." Maddy was torn between a natural feeling of sacrilege and a deep admiration of anyone who dared call a parson 'gobshite.

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    No physical activity is so vain as boxing. A man gets into the ring to attract admiration. In no sport, therefore, can you be more humiliated.

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    none but the estimable shall hear from me that I esteem them. The whole world is entitled to my courtesy, but greater tribute than that must be earned through virtuous acts.

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    Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.

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    Not to admire, is all the art I know To make men happy, or to keep them so. Thus Horace wrote we all know long ago; And thus Pope quotes the precept to re-teach From his translation; but had none admired, Would Pope have sung, or Horace been inspired?

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    No nobler feeling than this, of admiration for one higher than himself, dwells in the breast of man. It is to this hour, and at all hours, the vivifying influence in man's life.

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    Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes.

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    Of all the Beauties, it is that which attracts the most lasting Admiration, gives the greatest Charm to every thing we say or do, and renders us amiable in every Station, and thro' every Stage of Life.

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    Our admiration of a famous man lessens upon our nearer acquaintance with him; and we seldom hear of a celebrated person without a catalogue of some notorious weaknesses and infirmities.

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    Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.

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    Pity does not get you aid. Admiration at your refusal to give in does.

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    Putting something called Nature on a pedestal and admiring it from afar does for the environment what patriarchy does for the figure of Woman. It is paradoxical act of sadistic admiration.

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    Santiago Martinez Delgado made a Master piece in the Colombian Congress building worthy of admiration.

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    Our job as humans is to make admiration of others and adoration of God fully conscious and deliberate.

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    Season your admiration for a while.

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    Self-admiration giveth much consolation.

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    She would like to restrain from cruelty and receive no admiration for it.

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    Sir, as a man advances in life, he gets what is better than admiration, - judgement, to estimate things at their true value.

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    The admiration of another writer’s work is almost in inverse proportion to similarities in style.

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    The capacity to admire others is not my most fully developed trait.

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    The French constitute the most brilliant and the most dangerous nation in Europe and the best qualified in turn to become an object of admiration, hatred, pity or terror but never indifference.

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    She hardly knew how to suppose that she could be an object of admiration to so great a man.

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    Some people enjoy celebrity. I admire those who do, because if you're going to go through it, you might as well enjoy it.

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    Something caught in her throat at this second thanks, when she'd threatened him so brutally. When you're a monster, she thought, you are thanked and praised for not behaving like a monster. She would like to restrain from cruelty and receive no admiration for it.

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    That admiration of the 'neat but not gaudy,' which is commonly reported to have influenced the devil when he painted his tail pea green.

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    The affections are the children of ignorance; when the horizon of our experience expands, and models multiply, love and admiration imperceptibly vanish.

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    The effusions of genius are entitled to admiration rather than applause, as they are chiefly the effect of natural endowment, and sometimes appear to be almost involuntary.

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    The love of admiration leads to fraud, much more than the love of commendation; but, on the other hand, the latter is much more likely to spoil our: good actions by the substitution of an inferior motive.

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    The majesty of the Scriptures strikes me with admiration, as the purity of the gospel has its influence on my heart.

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    The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

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    There are charms made only for distant admiration.

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    There has also been much love, joy, evidence of admiration, there has never been one without the other.

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    The jealousy that arises from another's achievement is overcome by developing an awareness of and admiration for one's own and other's achievement.

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    The people hung upon His words - that is, until they hung Him on a cross. Admiration is fleeting. Love is eternal.

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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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    There's nothing makes you admire people like seeing yourself in them.

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    There is nothing to do with men [and women] but to love them; to contemplate their virtues with admiration, their faults with pity and forbearance, and their injuries with forgiveness.

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    There is nothing that God hath established in a constant course of nature, and which therefore is done every day, but would seem a Miracle, and exercise our admiration, if it were done but once.

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    The speed, accuracy and devastating power of American Artillery won confidence and admiration from the troops it supported and inspired fear and respect in their enemy.

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    The strongest and purest love is not the one that starts from impressions, but the one that comes from admiration.

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    There was no being displeased with such an encourager, for his admiration made him discern a likeness before it was possible.

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    The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

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    The whole thing that makes a mathematician’s life worthwhile is that he gets the grudging admiration of three or four colleagues.

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    The university most worthy of rational admiration is that one in which your lonely thinker can feel himself lonely, most positively furthered, and most richly fed

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    This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.

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    This is that eloquence the ancients represented as lightning, bearing down every opposer; this the power which has turned whole assemblies into astonishment, admiration and awe- - that is described by the torrent, the flame, and every other instance of irresistible impetuosity.

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    Those who are formed to win general admiration are seldom calculated to bestow individual happiness.

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    Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.

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    To an American writer, I should think it must be a flattering distinction to escape the admiration of the newspapers.

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    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.