Joseph Addison - Cato, a Tragedy

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From hence, let fierce contending nations know,
What dire effects from civil discord flow.

Joseph Addison

Thy father's merit sets thee up to view,
And shows thee in the fairest point of light,
To make thy virtues, or thy faults, conspicuous.

Joseph Addison

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.

Joseph Addison

Young men soon give and soon forget affronts;
Old age is slow in both.

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Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover,
Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.

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It must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well!
Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire,
This longing after immortality?
Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror,
O falling into nought? Why shrinks the soul
Back on herself, and startles at destruction?
'Tis the divinity that stirs within us;
'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter,
And intimates eternity to man.

Joseph Addison