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

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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below. – Joseph Addison

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There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and yet fall infinitely short of it. – Joseph Addison

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To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration. – Charles Horton Cooley

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

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You always admire what you really dont understand. – Eleanor Roosevelt

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Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth. – Nero Wolfe

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