Admiration and familiarity are strangers.

Admiration and familiarity are strangers.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed read more

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.

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

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

The king himself has follow'd her
When she has walk'd before.

The king himself has follow'd her
When she has walk'd before.

What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of read more

What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.

We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.