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«The main source of our wealth is goodness. The affections and the generous qualities that God admires in a world full of greed.»
«Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.»
Author: Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
(Critic, Historian)
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Admiration,
Love
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«The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.»
«He that loves a rosy cheek, Or a coral lip admires, Or from starlike eyes doth seek Fuel to maintain his fires; As old Time makes these decay, So his flames must waste away»
«The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.»
«A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.»
«Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another.»
«The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself, and admires others who attain them, while undervaluing the truly precious thing in life.»
Author: Sigmund Freud
(Founder)
| Keywords:
admires, attain, impression, standards, undervalue, undervalued, undervalues, undervaluing
«False greatness is unsociable and remote: conscious of its own frailty, it hides, or at least averts its face, and reveals itself only enough to create an illusion and not be recognized as the meanness that it really is. True greatness is free, kind, familiar and popular; it lets itself be touched and handled, it loses nothing by being seen at close quarters; the better one knows it, the more one admires it.»
Author: Jean de la Bruyere
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«The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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Youth
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admiration, admires, fails, hero, intoxicate, intoxicated, intoxicates, intoxicating, of his own, projection, projections
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