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Admiration and familiarity are strangers.
Admiration and familiarity are strangers.
Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.
Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.
Admiration begins where acquaintance ceases
Admiration begins where acquaintance ceases
For fools admire, but me of sense approve.
For fools admire, but me of sense approve.
Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.
We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.
The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind
To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind
"Not to admire, is all the art I know
(Plain truth, dear Murray, needs few flowers of speech)
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"Not to admire, is all the art I know
(Plain truth, dear Murray, needs few flowers of speech)
To make men happy, or to keep them so."
(So take it in the very words of Creech)
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?
