“It is amazing how much our admiration takes its tone from the admiration of others; and when to that is added an obvious admiration of ourselves, the charm is irresistible.”

The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

1870s
Variant: Find things beautiful as much as you can, most people find too little beautiful.
Source: The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

Speech in Chippenham (12 June 1926) on the General Strike, quoted in Our Inheritance (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1938), p. 159.
1926
Context: The Government took emergency measures to control food supplies, to commandeer all forms of transport, to preserve order, and to stop the export of such coal as might be in the ports. Now into those few hours there were thus crowded events of a staggering character, and, had they taken place among a less disciplined people than our own people, riot and revolution would have quickly followed. But our race is not a raw and untried race. The country, true to its finest traditions, kept its head, and by keeping its head won the admiration, the reluctant admiration, of the world.

Source: Freedom

The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery https://books.google.com/books?id=earytjxi6pEC&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;dq=lincoln+mcpherson&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwjD7tqJserLAhVLQSYKHRn6DmgQ6AEIPTAE#v=onepage&amp;q=lincoln%20mcpherson&amp;f=false (2010) p. xx <br class="br">2010s