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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 perpetual succession of miracles rising into view.

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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.

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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.

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

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Member Quotes About Decays

How deadly this sweet drink of praise, that sipped, decays the thing it lauds. A sly deceiver, 'tis, oh yes, this chronic craving for applause. A first place prize, the kiss of death, to art that once roamed free. But now is surely lost, I fear, in mires of mimicry.

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