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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.

Quote by Joseph Addison about admiration

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

Quote by Joseph Addison about admiration

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces, but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.

Quote by Richard Burton about friendship, life