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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Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible. – Joseph Addison

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I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I dont know where I would be without it. – Thomas Mann

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

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

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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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