ADMIRATION

Addison, Joseph
Admiration is a very short-lived passion that decays on growing familiar with its object unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries and kept alive by perpetual miracles rising up to its view.

Blessington, Marguerite
Those who are formed to win general admiration are seldom calculated to bestow individual happiness.

Burke, Edmund
There is a wide difference between admiration and love. The sublime, which is the cause of the former, always dwells on great objects and terrible; the latter on small ones and pleasing; we submit to what we admire, but we love what submits to us: in one case we are forced, in the other we are flattered, into compliance.

Carlyle, Thomas
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.

Franklin, Benjamin
Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

Helps, Sir Arthur
It is a good thing to believe; it is a good thing to admire. By continually looking upwards, our minds will themselves grow upwards; as a man, by indulging in habits of scorn and contempt for others, is sure to descend to the level of those he despises.

It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you live,, than to be loved by them. And this is not on account of any gratification of vanity, but because admiration is so much more tolerant than love.

Johnson, Samuel
Admiration must be kept up by the novelty that at first produced it; and how much soever is given, there must always be the impression that more remains.

Montaigne, Michel E de
Few men are admired by their servants.

Rochefoucauld, Francois, Duc de la
We always like those who admire us, but we do not always like those whom we admire.

Ruskin, John
To cultivate sympathy you must be among living beings and thinking about them; to cultivate admiration, among beautiful things and looking at them.

Tillotson, John
There is a pleasure in admiration; and this it is which properly causeth admiration, when we discover a great deal in an object which we understand to be excellent; and yet we see more beyond that, which our understandings cannot fully reach and comprehend.