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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There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance. – Joseph Addison

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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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Oh! death will find me long before I tire of watching you. – Rupert Brooke

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