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When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who read more
When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it
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.
Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. . . . The least energizing emotion read more
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 read more
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 perpetual succession of miracles rising into view.
Distance is a great promoter of admiration!
Distance is a great promoter of admiration!
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.
For fools admire, but me of sense approve.
For fools admire, but me of sense approve.
A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
