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Admiration Quotes - Page 4

There is an admiration which is the daughter of knowledge.

Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

I profess not to know how women's hearts are wooed and won. To me they have always been matters of riddle and admiration.

Washington Irving (1834). “The Complete Works of Washington Irving in One Volume”, p.337

Few men are admired by their servants.

"Essais". Book by Michel de Montaigne, Book III, ch. 2, "Of Repentance", c. 1592.

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

Marguerite Countess of Blessington, Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1839). “Desultory Thoughts and Reflections”, p.19

It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.

Margaret Fuller, Arthur Buckminster Fuller (1874). “Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke”, p.110