Admiration
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Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness
Admiration bestowed upon any one but ourselves is always tedious
I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don't know where I would be without it
We always love those who admire us, and we do not always love those whom we admire
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
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On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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