admiration, n.Definitions

Admiration is offered by people to things that they really don't understand.

Admiration is generally polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.

Admiration's basic feeling is a passive contemplative mood.

Admiration is a kind of flattery. We always like those who admire us.

Admiration is, along with pity, the only two feelings that human affairs inspire in noble hearts.

Admiration always results in love those who admire us, but it is not the case that we always love those whom we admire.

Admiration is practiced well when the admirer accepts, as his last achievement, the filling up of the space opened by what is admired.

Admiration is marked by an innocence and is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.