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admiration

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

Human affairs inspire in noble hearts only two feelings-admiration or pity.Anatole France

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

Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.

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.

There is an innocence in admiration... it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day. Friedrich Nietzsche

's basic feeling is a passive contemplative mood.

The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. The least energizing emotion to write out of is admiration. It is very difficult to write out of because the basic feeling that goes with admiration is a passive contemplative mood.

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

You always admire what you really don't understand.

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

The last achievement of the serious admirer is to stop immediately putting to work the energies aroused by, filling up the space opened by, what is admired. Thereby talented admirers give themselves permission to breathe, to breathe more deeply. But for that it is necessary to go beyond avidity... to identify with something beyond achievement, beyond the gathering of power.' Susan Sontag, Under the Sign of Saturn: Essays

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

We always like those who admire us. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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