“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

No. 256 (24 December 1711)
Often only the first half of this statement is quoted
The Spectator (1711–1714)

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