Joseph Addison on Birthday
1672–1719 England
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The friendships of the world are oft
Confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasure;
Ours has severest virtue for its basis,
And such a friendship ends not but with life.
Cato, A Tragedy (1713)
'Tis the divinity that stirs within us;
Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter,
And intimates eternity to man.
Cato (1713)
Eternity! thou pleasing dreadful thought!
Through what variety of untried being,
Through what new scenes and changes must we pass!
Cato, A Tragedy (1713)
True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
The Spectator (1711)
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
Disputed