Admiration
Wonder; astonishment.
Wonder mingled with approbation or delight; an emotion excited by a person or thing possessed of wonderful or high excellence; as, admiration of a beautiful woman, of a landscape, of virtue.
Cause of admiration; something to excite wonder, or pleased surprise; a prodigy.
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Admiration Quotations
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
Albert Einstein
Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
Benjamin Franklin
Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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
Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children.
John Adams
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
Jane Austen
No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.
Jane Austen
We reserve our deepest respect and admiration for those who volunteer for service and give their lives to help keep our nation secure.
Mitt Romney
Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
Ambrose Bierce
Admiration Translations
admiration in French is admiration
admiration in German is Bewunderung
admiration in Latin is admiratio
admiration in Swedish is beundran, beundran
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