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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?

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.

To admire nothing, Is the only method that I know, To make men happy, and to keep them so.

The king himself has follow'd her When she has walk'd before.

Heroes themselves had fallen behind! Whene'er he went before.

We always love those who admire us, and we do not always love those whom we admire.

On dit que dans ses amours Il fut caresse des belles, Qui le suivirent toujours, Tant qu'il marcha devant elles.

For fools admire, but me of sense approve.

Season your admiration for a while With an attent ear

Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.

The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. The least energizing emotion to write out of is admiration, because the basic feeling that goes with admiration is a passive contemplative mood.

Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.

What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

We always love those who admire us, we do not always love those whom we admire.

We live by our imagination, our admirations, and our sentiments.

Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.

Distance is a great promoter of admiration!

You always admire what you really don't understand.