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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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another. – Joseph Addison

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Life
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A mans first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and his next to escape the censures of the world. – Joseph Addison

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Tis not in mortals to command success, but well do more, Sempronius, well deserve it. – Joseph Addison

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The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why. – Jean Rostand

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Admiration is the daughter of ignorance. – Benjamin Franklin

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Distance is a great promoter of admiration! – Denis Diderot

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We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire. – Francois de la Rochefoucauld

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