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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With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts. – Joseph Addison

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We make provisions for this life as if it were never to have an end, and for the other life as though it were never to have a beginning. – 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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To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration. – Charles Horton Cooley

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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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Admiration is the daughter of ignorance. – Benjamin Franklin

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