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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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts old age is slow in both. – Joseph Addison

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Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors. – Joseph Addison

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