You always admire

You always admire what you really don't understand.

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)
"Meet the Press", NBC TV
16 September 1956

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There is an innocence

There is an innocence in admiration: he has it to whom it has not yet occurred that he too could one day be admired.

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future, 1886
Part Four: Maxims and Interludes
Number 118

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Admiration is a very short-lived

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 (1672-1719)
The Spectator, Number 256
24 December 1711

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