Quote by Joseph Addison
Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays

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 perpetual succession of miracles rising into view. – Joseph Addison

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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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It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age. – Joseph Addison

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