#admire

Admire a small ship, but put your freight in a large one; for the larger the load, the greater will be the profit upon profit. ↗

— Hesiod

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Actors I admire? Ed Harris, or course, I think he's terrific; because I know he always had to fight being what he looked like a lot, but I think he's a terrific actor. ↗

— Anthony Hopkins

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A modest man is usually admired, if people ever hear of him. ↗

— E. W. Howe

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The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them. ↗

— E. W. Howe

#ever #hear #modest #modest person #people

There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Don't get me wrong, I admire elegance and have an appreciation of the finer things in life. But to me, beauty lies in simplicity. ↗

— Mark Hyman

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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

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I admired in others the strength that I lacked myself. ↗

— Georg Brandes

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Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought to be. ↗

— James Broughton

#hard #image #like #most #ought

When I think of the artists I admire and seek out musically. It's because I'm curious about where they're going to go the next time they have a chance to put a record out. It's not about where I find them on the radio dial, or how many records they're selling. ↗

— Mary Chapin Carpenter

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