Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

For fools admire, but me of sense approve.

For fools admire, but me of sense approve.

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

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

Admiration and familiarity are strangers.

Admiration and familiarity are strangers.

Men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty billows of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, read more

Men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty billows of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, the compass of the ocean, and the circuits of the stars, and pass themselves by.

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.

"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?

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