Admiration, Joseph Addison

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 in Spectator No. 256 (24 December 1711).

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Beauty, Joseph Addison

Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover,
Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.

- Joseph Addison, Cato, A Tragedy (1713), Act I, scene 4.

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