Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
“JOY goes against the foundations of mathematics: it multiplies when we divide.”
“Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.”
Most of the civilest nations of the earth labour to fetch their original from some one of the sons or nephews of Noah, which were scattered abroad after the confusion of Babel. In this dispersion we must certainly find the establishment of regal power throughout the kingdoms of the world.
p. 58
Patriarcha
“When one gets quiet, then something wakes up inside one, something happy and quiet like the stars.”
“Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief”
Widely quoted as an Addison maxim this is actually by the American clergyman George Washington Burnap (1802-1859), published in Burnap's The Sphere and Duties of Woman : A Course of Lectures (1848), Lecture IV.
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