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

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"If there is ever a magical beauty that can be watched hours with great admiration, and that is the beauty of a strong light falling from the everlasting skies into the heart of the dimness!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Admiration, Beauty, Nature, Power, Truth

"But all I could see was her. No skill of mine, no artist anywhere, could've immortalized how gorgeous she was. It was impossible to believe she'd ever had any doubts about her body. The firelight shone on her skin, golden and perfect, making her look like some radiant goddess of legend. I wanted to kneel before her and offer eternal obedience."

Richelle Mead, American Author

Admiration, Beauty, Obedience, Perfection

"I don't deal well with admiration if it's for something I haven't done. Other than exist."

Lisa Marie Presley, American Musician

Admiration,

"He was generally aware that he had been blessed in her beauty; even in her usual homespun, knee-deep in mud from her garden, or stained and fierce with the blood of her calling, the curve of her bones spoke to his own marrow, and those whisky eyes could make him drunk with a glance. Besides, the mad collieshangie of her hair made him laugh."

Diana Gabaldon, American Author

Admiration, Beauty, Love, Humanity

"I have commenced my auspicious reign and am in quiet possession of the Presidential Mansion... this winter I intend to do something in the way of entertaining that shall be the admiration and talk of all Washington world."

Julia Gardiner Tyler, American First Lady

Admiration, Possession, Quiet, Talk

"Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

Admiration,

"...would not exchange this one little English girl for the Grand Turk's whole seraglio, gazelle-eyes, houri forms, and all!"

Charlotte Bronte, British Novelist

Admiration, Values, Comparison, Culture

"I see you from afar-fragile and shy as a star gleaming through a cloudy rift."

John Geddes, Canadian Author

Admiration, Distance, Emotion, Beauty

"The earth incites the wonder and admiration of man even though he is imperfect and his understanding greatly limited."

Joseph Rutherford, American Clergyman

Admiration, Earth, Man, Understanding

"There are charms made only for distant admiration."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves."

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"I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: "What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.""

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"If there is ever a magical beauty that can be watched hours with great admiration, and that is the beauty of a strong light falling from the everlasting skies into the heart of the dimness!"

"I don't deal well with admiration if it's for something I haven't done. Other than exist."

"I have commenced my auspicious reign and am in quiet possession of the Presidential Mansion... this winter I intend to do something in the way of entertaining that shall be the admiration and talk of all Washington world."

"Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves."

"...would not exchange this one little English girl for the Grand Turk's whole seraglio, gazelle-eyes, houri forms, and all!"

"I see you from afar-fragile and shy as a star gleaming through a cloudy rift."

"The earth incites the wonder and admiration of man even though he is imperfect and his understanding greatly limited."

"There are charms made only for distant admiration."

Explore more quotes by Joseph Addison

"Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!"

"No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority."

"If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is."

"When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations."

"What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable."

"Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both."

"Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble."

"Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion."

"The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves."

"I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: "What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.""