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• The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

  F. H. Bradley

  Happiness, Secret, Admiration

  Aphorisms (1930) no. 33

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• But I'm thrilled to be employed, and to work with all my friends and people that I admire. You're just lucky to work - that's the bottom line.

  Bonnie Hunt

  People, Lucky, Lines

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Make no display of your talents or attainments; for every one will clearly see, admire, and acknowledge them, so long as you cover them with the beautiful veil of modesty

  Nathanael Emmons

  Beautiful, Long, Veils

  Nathanael Emmons (1861). “The Works of Nathanael Emmons, D.D., Third Pastor of the Church in Franklin, Mass: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.101

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• Find me a servant who admires his Master and you will have found two good men.

  Lucullus

  Character, Men, Two

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• A modern man may disapprove of some of his sweeping reforms, and approve others; but finds it difficult not to admire even where he does not approve.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Reform, Doe

  "The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1990.

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• We can admire what we see, but we can only love what we truly know.

  Tyga

  Only Love, Knows

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• You always admire what you really don't understand.

  Blaise Pascal

  Inspirational, Fake People, Appreciation

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• I don't think you should meet the people you most admire. I don't want reality to interfere with my image.

  Ayumi Hamasaki

  Thinking, Reality, People

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• There is in true Beauty, as in Courage, somewhat which narrow Souls cannot dare to admire.

  William Congreve

  Inspirational, Beauty, Courage

  "The Old Batchelor: A Comedy".

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• If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Art, Men

  "De Brevitate, XX" by Seneca the Younger, 49 AD.

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• There are lots of people I admire and respect, but I don't necessarily want to be like them. I'm too happy being myself.

  James D'arcy

  Happy, People, Want

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I may not understand, but I am willing to admire.

  Anthony Hope

  Understanding, May, Admiration

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• Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Character, Example, Followers

  "Intuitions and Summaries of Thought (Volume I)". Book by Christian Nestell Bovee, 1862.

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• Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

  W. H. Auden

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Dyer's Hand (1963) "Notes on the Comic"

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• We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Admiration, Admiring

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• Human nature has a tendency to admire complexity but reward simplicity.

  Ben Huh

  Business, Simplicity, Marketing

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• It is only the young and callow and ignorant that admire rashness. Think before you speak. Know your subject.

  Cass Gilbert

  Thinking, Ignorant, Speak

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• I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much.

  Donna Tartt

  Writing, Literature, Maxwell

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• If you envy successful people, you create a negative force field of attraction that repels you from ever doing the things that you need to do to be successful. If you admire successful people, you create a positive force field of attraction that draws you toward becoming more and more like the kinds of people that you want to be like.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Success, Optimistic

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• Nature's beauty we all admire in every shape and form, but how much more we admire her when the weather's nice and warm.

  Janet Hargreaves

  Nature, Nice, Weather

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• Etiquette requires us to admire the human race.

  Mark Twain

  Race, Etiquette, Humans

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.187, Courier Corporation

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• I can look back on my life, where there have been moments where things might have gone the other way. Everything is like stepping stones, and I've seen people I admire falter. We're all vulnerable.

  Hugh Jackman

  People, Looks, Gone

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you. -Mr. Darcy

  Jane Austen

  Romantic, Love You, Pride

  Jane Austen, Joseph Pearce (2008). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.190, Ignatius Press

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• Even a pacifist should admire the military virtues.

  John Keegan

  Military, Virtue, Should

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• Bad artists always admire each others work.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Artist, Admiration

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.702, GENERAL PRESS

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