Logo
Quote by Joseph Addison
Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays u

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. – Joseph Addison

Other quotes by Joseph Addison

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. – Joseph Addison

Category:
Sky & Clouds
Author
Joseph Addison
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Admiration
category

Fools admire, but men of sense approve. – Alexander Pope

Category:
Admiration

To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind. – Theophile Gautier

Category:
Admiration

Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion. – Blaise Pascal

Category:
Admiration

Distance is a great promoter of admiration! – Denis Diderot

Category:
Admiration

Random Quotes

Everyone asks me about being so worried or thinking about existence as if Im the only person who cant understand why a tree grows the way it does or why a person is in power when theyre not that great. These are questions everyone has. – Chris Martin

Category:
power

My office is at Yankee stadium. Yes, dreams do come true. – Derek Jeter

Category:
Dreams

I love to deer hunt and fish and drive down the back roads in my truck. All those things basically equal freedom to me – and not having to return that message or call from my record company or management. At some point, I need to recharge. – Blake Shelton

Category:
Freedom

As you reach for understanding, you find that your ladder of facts isn’t long enough, and you try to extend it by adding a rung of faith. Eventually you see that the task is hopeless, and you put away your ladder of facts and go get a ladder of faith. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Category:
Faith