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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
Distance is a great promoter of admiration!
Distance is a great promoter of admiration!
Admiration begins where acquaintance ceases
Admiration begins where acquaintance ceases
Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.
Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.
On dit que dans ses amours
Il fut caresse des belles,
Qui le suivirent toujours,
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On dit que dans ses amours
Il fut caresse des belles,
Qui le suivirent toujours,
Tant qu'il marcha devant elles.
Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.
Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.
No nobler feeling than this, of admiration for one higher than
himself, dwells in the breast of man. It read more
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.
Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
Heroes themselves had fallen behind!
--Whene'er he went before.
Heroes themselves had fallen behind!
--Whene'er he went before.
