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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Golden Link of Friendship, by Various
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+Title: The Golden Link of Friendship
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+Author: Various
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+Release Date: November 11, 2011 [EBook #37982]
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+Language: English
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+  _LATEST ADDITIONS TO
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+  41. Rab and his Friends. _Brown._
+  42. Marjorie Fleming. _Brown._
+  43. Poems of the East.
+  44. Gems from Balzac.
+  45. Thoughts from Tolstoi.
+  46. Thoughts from Jerome K. Jerome.
+  47. Thoughts from H. G. Wells.
+  48. Thoughts from E. F. Benson.
+  49. Thoughts from Augustine Birrell.
+  50. Thoughts from G. K. Chesterton.
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+  SESAME BOOKLETS
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+  The
+  Golden Link of
+  Friendship
+
+
+  George G. Harrap & Co.
+  3 Portsmouth St. London
+
+
+    "_A link to bind when circumstances part;
+    A nerve of feeling stretched from heart to heart._"
+
+  The Riverside Press Ltd., Edinburgh
+
+
+
+
+Foreword
+
+
+_Friendship is one of the most important things in the world. As a
+factor in educating the mind, forming the character, guiding the will,
+and shaping the destiny, the influence of Friendship can scarcely be
+overrated. Friendship has made a man a hero, a saint, a demon!_
+
+_It is to be hoped, therefore, that these Golden Thoughts on
+Friendship--garnered from a wide field--will prove helpful and inspiring
+and tend to create pure and noble ideals in the minds of readers._
+
+_The touching story of David and Jonathan continues to possess a
+surpassing charm for humanity; and the voyager over Life's ocean who
+discovers a true friend discovers an island offering a safe, quiet haven
+from every storm that blows, and which presents innumerable luscious
+fruits and sweet-scented flowers for his refreshment and enjoyment._
+
+                                                              _A. E. S._
+
+
+
+
+Birth of Friendship
+
+
+  Nature loves nothing solitary, and always reaches out to something
+  as a support, which ever in the sweetest friend is most delightful.
+
+                                                             _Cicero_
+
+
+
+  Great souls by instinct to each other turn,
+  Demand alliance, and in friendship burn.
+
+                                    _Addison_
+
+
+  The only way to have a friend, is to be one.
+
+                                     _Emerson_
+
+
+  Some friendships are made by _nature_, some by _contract_, some by
+  _interest_, and some by _souls_.
+                                                     _Jeremy Taylor_
+
+
+  The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as
+  iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.
+                                                          _Colton_
+
+
+  Only that soul can be my friend which I encounter on the line of my
+  own march, that soul to which I do not decline and which does not
+  decline to me, but, native of the same celestial latitude, repeats
+  in its own all my experience.
+                                                            _Emerson_
+
+
+
+
+Culture of Friendship
+
+
+  It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
+
+                                         _Thackeray_
+
+
+  We have few friendships, because we are not willing to pay the price
+  of friendship.
+                                                          _Hugh Black_
+
+
+                    Hand
+  Grasps hand, eye lights eye in good friendship,
+  And great hearts expand,
+  And grow one in the sense of this world's life.
+
+                                _Robert Browning_
+
+
+  A friend whom you have been gaining during your whole life, you
+  ought not to be displeased with in a moment. A stone is many years
+  becoming a ruby; take care that you do not destroy it in an instant
+  against another stone.
+                                                              _Saadi_
+
+
+  Once let friendship be given that is born of God, nor time nor
+  circumstance can change it to a lessening; it must be mutual growth,
+  increasing trust, widening faith, enduring patience, forgiving love,
+  unselfish ambition--an affection built before the Throne, that will
+  bear the test of time and trial.
+                                                  _Allan Throckmorton_
+
+
+  A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a
+  friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
+                                                _Proverbs_ xviii. 24
+
+
+              You'll never hope
+  To be such friends, for instance she and you,
+  As when you hunted cowslips in the woods
+  Or played together in the meadow hay.
+  Oh yes--with age, respect comes, and your worth
+  Is felt, there's growing sympathy of tastes,
+  There's ripened friendship, there's confirmed esteem.
+
+                                      _Robert Browning_
+
+
+  Plant thou the tree of friendship only; so shall thy heart's desire
+    bear fruit:
+  Uproot thou hatred's plant completely, or woes unnumbered thence may
+    shoot.
+                                                               _Hafiz_
+
+
+
+
+Sacredness of Friendship
+
+
+  Friendship's an abstract of this noble flame,
+    'Tis love refin'd, and purged from all its dross,
+  'Tis next to angels' love, if not the same,
+    As strong in passion is, though not so gross.
+
+                                  _Catherine Philips_
+
+
+  Golden friendship is not a common thing to be picked up in the
+  street.... There are pearls of the heart, which cannot be thrown to
+  swine.
+                                                         _Hugh Black_
+
+
+  Friendship, peculiar boon of Heaven,
+    The noble mind's delight and pride,
+  To men and angels only given,
+    To all the lower world denied.
+
+                        _Samuel Johnson_
+
+
+  O Friendship! thou divinest alchemist, that man should ever profane
+  thee!
+                                                    _Douglas Jerrold_
+
+
+  Pure friendship is something which men of inferior intellect can
+  never taste.
+                                                   _De la Bruyère_
+
+
+  The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and
+  trust. It must not surmise or provide for infirmity. It treats its
+  object as a god that it may deify both.
+                                                           _Emerson_
+
+
+  For perfect friendship it may be said to require natures so rare and
+  costly, so well tempered each, and so happily adapted, and withal so
+  circumstanced that very seldom can its satisfaction be realised.
+
+                                                             _Emerson_
+
+
+  Love shows me the opulence of nature, by disclosing to me in my
+  friend a hidden wealth, and I infer an equal depth of good in every
+  other direction.
+                                                            _Emerson_
+
+
+  Who talks of a _common_ friendship? There is no such thing in the
+  world. On earth no word is more sublime. Friendship is the nearest
+  thing we know to what religion is. God is love.
+                                                    _Henry Drummond_
+
+
+  "You will forgive me, I hope, for the sake of the friendship
+    between us,
+  Which is too true and too sacred to be so easily broken!"
+
+                                                  _Longfellow_
+
+
+          He that wrongs his friend
+  Wrongs himself more, and ever bears about
+  A silent court of justice in his breast,
+  Himself the judge and jury, and himself
+  The prisoner at the bar, ever condemn'd:
+  And that drags down his life.
+
+                                 _Tennyson_
+
+
+  Friendship is the marriage of the soul.
+
+                               _Voltaire_
+
+
+
+
+Beauty of Friendship
+
+
+  A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
+
+                                                 _Emerson_
+
+
+  The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed:
+  there is no winter, and no night: all tragedies, all ennuis vanish;
+  all duties even; nothing fills the preceding eternity but the forms
+  all radiant of beloved persons.
+                                                            _Emerson_
+
+
+  The only rose without thorns is friendship.
+
+                            _Mlle. de Scuderi_
+
+
+  To the young friendship comes as the glory of spring, a very miracle
+  of beauty, a mystery of birth: to the old it has the bloom of
+  autumn, beautiful still, but with the beauty of decay.
+                                                          _Hugh Black_
+
+
+  The pledge of Friendship! it is still divine,
+  Though watery floods have quenched its burning wine;
+  Whatever vase the sacred drops may hold,
+  The gourd, the shell, the cup of beaten gold,
+  Around its brim the bond of Nature throws
+  A garland sweeter than the banquet's rose.
+
+                                        _O. W. Holmes_
+
+
+  O friend, my bosom said,
+  Through thee alone the sky is arched,
+  Through thee the rose is red;
+  All things through thee take nobler form,
+  And look beyond the earth,
+  The mill-round of our fate appears
+  A sun-path in thy worth.
+  Me too thy nobleness has taught
+  To master my despair;
+  The fountains of my hidden life
+  Are through thy friendship fair.
+
+                                  _Emerson_
+
+
+  Friend is a word of royal tone;
+  Friend is a poem all alone.
+
+               _From the Persian_
+
+
+  Happy is the house that shelters a friend! It might well be built
+  like a festal bower or arch, to entertain him a single day.
+
+                                                          _Emerson_
+
+
+  Thick waters show no images of things;
+  Friends are each other's mirrors, and should be
+  Clearer than crystal, or the mountain-springs,
+  And free from clouds, design, or flattery.
+  For vulgar souls no part of friendship share;
+  Poets and friends are born to what they are.
+
+                              _Catherine Philips_
+
+
+
+
+Choice of Friendship
+
+
+  First on thy friend deliberate with thyself,
+  Pause, ponder, sift; not eager in the choice,
+  Nor jealous of the chosen: fixing, fix;--
+  Judge before friendship, then confide till death.
+
+                                            _Young_
+
+
+  The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
+
+                                                           _Fielding_
+
+
+  Friendship demands a religious treatment. We must not be wilful, we
+  must not provide. We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are
+  self-elected. Reverence is a great part of it.
+                                                            _Emerson_
+
+
+  Friendship with the upright; friendship with the sincere; and
+  friendship with the man of much observation: these are advantageous.
+  Friendship with the man of specious airs; friendship with the
+  insinuatingly soft; and friendship with the glib-tongued: these are
+  injurious.
+                                                           _Confucius_
+
+
+  Oh, be my friend, and teach me to be thine!
+
+                                    _Emerson_
+
+
+  My friends have come to me unsought; the great God gave them to me.
+
+                                                            _Emerson_
+
+
+  The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
+  Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
+  But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
+  Of each new-hatch'd, unfledged comrade.
+
+                                     _Shakespeare_
+
+
+  He makes no friend who never made a foe.
+
+                                _Tennyson_
+
+
+  Who friendship with a knave hath made
+  Is judg'd a partner in the trade.
+
+                                  _Gay_
+
+
+  A man's friends are his magnetisms.
+
+                             _Emerson_
+
+
+  A good man is the best friend, and therefore soonest to be chosen,
+  longer to be retained, and, indeed, never to be parted with, unless
+  he cease to be that for which he was chosen.
+
+                                                      _Jeremy Taylor_
+
+
+  Friendship sealed by companionship in sin will not last long.
+
+                                                        _Arnot_
+
+
+  Eschew that friend, if thou art wise,
+  Who consorts with thy enemies.
+                                _Saadi_
+
+
+  Friendship requires a steady, constant, and unchangeable character,
+  a person that is uniform in his intimacy.
+                                                           _Plutarch_
+
+
+
+
+Divine Friendship
+
+
+  Ye are My friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.
+
+                                          _John_ xv. 14
+
+
+  His mouth is most sweet: yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my
+  beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.
+
+                                                  _Canticles_ v. 16
+
+
+  He that loveth pureness of heart, for the grace of his lips the King
+  shall be his friend.
+
+                                                   _Proverbs_ xxii. 11
+
+
+  It is said that when he came to die, the last words of the American
+  President Edwards, after bidding his weeping relatives good-bye,
+  were: "Now where is Jesus of Nazareth, my true and never-failing
+  Friend?" So saying he fell asleep.
+                                                               _Anon_
+
+
+
+
+Reality of Friendship
+
+
+  Friendship is the ideal, friends are the reality; reality always
+  remains far apart from the ideal.
+                                                     _Joseph Roux_
+
+
+  They seem to take away the sun from the world who withdraw
+  friendship from life.
+
+                                                    _Cicero_
+
+
+            You're my friend--
+  What a thing friendship is, world without end!
+  How it gives the heart and soul a stir up!
+
+                               _Robert Browning_
+
+
+  Friendship is Love without his wings!
+
+                                _Byron_
+
+
+  I do not wish to treat friendships daintily, but with roughest
+  courage. When they are real, they are not glass threads or
+  frostwork, but the solidest thing we know.
+
+                                                       _Emerson_
+
+
+  Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a
+  distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
+
+                                                _Henry D. Thoreau_
+
+
+  O, weary hearts! O, slumbering eyes!
+  O, drooping souls, whose destinies
+  Are fraught with fear and pain,
+  Ye shall be loved again!
+
+  No one is so accursed by fate,
+  No one so utterly desolate,
+  But some heart, though unknown,
+  Responds unto his own.
+
+  Responds,--as if with unseen wings,
+  An angel touched its quivering strings;
+  And whispers, in its song,
+  Where hast thou stayed so long?
+
+                             _Longfellow_
+
+
+  Friendship is a word the very sight of which in print makes the
+  heart warm.
+                                              _Augustine Birrell_
+
+
+  Real friends are our greatest joy and our greatest sorrow.
+
+                                                   _Fénelon_
+
+
+  Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.
+
+                                 _Shakespeare_
+
+
+
+
+Worth of Friendship
+
+
+  True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the
+  worth and choice.
+                                                         _Ben Jonson_
+
+
+  Friendship, mysterious cement of the soul,
+  Sweetener of life, and solder of society,
+  I owe thee much: thou hast deserv'd from me
+  Far, far beyond what I can ever pay.
+
+                                      _Blair_
+
+
+  Not all the works of Science, Art,
+  Or Genius in this world are worth
+  One genuine sigh that from the heart
+  Friendship or Love draws freshly forth.
+
+                           _Thomas Moore_
+
+
+  Friendship always benefits, while love sometimes injures.
+
+                                                   _Seneca_
+
+
+  To have a friend is to have one of the sweetest gifts that life can
+  bring: to be a friend is to have a solemn and tender education of
+  soul from day to day.
+                                                      _Anna R. Brown_
+
+
+  Friendship is an allay of our sorrows, the ease of our passions, the
+  discharge of our oppressions, the sanctuary to our calamities, the
+  counsellor of our doubts, the clarity of our minds, the emission of
+  our thoughts, the exercise and improvement of what we meditate.
+
+                                                       _Jeremy Taylor_
+
+
+  True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom
+  known until it be lost.
+                                                         _Colton_
+
+
+  Friendship is an order of nobility; from its revelations we come
+  more worthily into nature.
+                                                         _Emerson_
+
+
+  Ah, how good it feels! the hand of an old friend.
+
+                                       _Longfellow_
+
+
+  He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
+  But he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
+
+                                        _Oriental Proverb_
+
+
+  Nor scour the seas, nor sift mankind,
+  A poet or a friend to find;
+  Behold, he watches at the door,
+  Behold his shadow on the floor.
+
+                              _Emerson_
+
+
+  A friend who will not despise us for our weakness, nor disown us for
+  our sinfulness, nor tire of us for being troublesome, nor scoff at
+  us for our sensibility, but who will patiently hear our tale, fully
+  understand our regret, tenderly recognise our stumbling-blocks, and
+  be honest enough to tell us the truth, cost us what it may--oh, do
+  you not see what a real help he might be to us.
+                                                      _Bishop Thorold_
+
+
+                        A friend
+  Welded into our life is more to us
+  Than twice five thousand kinsmen, one in blood.
+
+                                      _Euripides_
+
+
+  I used to think that friendship meant happiness: I have learnt that
+  it means discipline.
+                                                      _Anna R. Brown_
+
+
+  Dear is my friend--yet from my foe, as from my friend comes good:
+  My friend shows what I can do, and my foe what I should.
+
+                                                         _Schiller_
+
+
+  We can live without a brother, but not without a friend.
+
+                                          _German Proverb_
+
+
+  Love is flower-like;
+  Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
+
+                            _Coleridge_
+
+
+  You shall perceive how you mistake my fortunes; I am wealthy in my
+  friends.
+                                                       _Shakespeare_
+
+
+  A faithful friend is the medicine of life.
+
+                            _Ecclesiasticus_
+
+
+  "I know and esteem you, and feel that your nature is noble,
+  Lifting mine up to a higher, a more ethereal level,
+  Therefore I value your friendship."
+
+                                                 _Longfellow_
+
+
+
+
+Disinterestedness of Friendship
+
+
+  In friendship, there is no commerce or business depending on the
+  same, but itself.
+                                                       _Montaigne_
+
+
+  You must therefore love me, myself, and not my circumstances, if we
+  are to be real friends.
+                                                             _Cicero_
+
+
+  I can never think of promoting my convenience at the expense of a
+  friend's interest and inclination.
+                                                _George Washington_
+
+
+  There is possible to-day, as ever, a generous friendship which
+  forgets self.... The miracle of friendship has been too often
+  enacted on this dull earth of ours to suffer us to doubt either its
+  possibility or its wondrous beauty.
+                                                         _Hugh Black_
+
+
+  Friendship is like a debt of honour; the moment it is talked of, it
+  loses its real name and assumes the more ungrateful form of
+  obligation.
+                                                          _Goldsmith_
+
+
+  Have friends, not for the sake of receiving, but of giving.
+
+                                                _Joseph Roux_
+
+
+  Amongst true friends there is no fear of losing anything.
+
+                                            _Jeremy Taylor_
+
+
+  When men are friends, there is no need of justice; but when they are
+  just, they still need friendship.
+                                                           _Aristotle_
+
+
+  Better be a nettle in the side of your friend, than his echo. The
+  condition which high friendship demands is ability to do without it.
+  To be capable of that high office requires great and sublime parts.
+  There must be very two before there can be very one.
+                                                             _Emerson_
+
+
+  No friendship can excuse a sin.
+
+                  _Jeremy Taylor_
+
+
+  Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man must have
+  authority over others, but he can never have their heart but by
+  giving his own.
+                                                    _Thomas Wilson_
+
+
+  True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in
+  adversity they come without invitation.
+                                                 _Theophrastus_
+
+
+  Now can there be a worse disgrace than this--that I should be
+  thought to value money more than the life of a friend?
+
+                                                        _Plato_
+
+
+  Love took up the harp of life, and smote on all the chords with might;
+  Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, passed in music out of
+    sight.
+                                                              _Tennyson_
+
+
+  True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd,
+  Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
+
+                                             _Homer_
+
+
+
+
+Service of Friendship
+
+
+  The services which cement friendship are reciprocal services.
+
+                                                _William Smith_
+
+
+  Friends are to incite one another to God's works.
+
+                          _William Ellery Channing_
+
+
+  I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them
+  where I can find them.
+                                                           _Emerson_
+
+
+  A principal fruit of friendship is the use and discharge of the
+  fulness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do
+  cause and induce.
+                                                             _Bacon_
+
+
+  Most of our friendships lack the distinction of greatness, because
+  we are not ready for little acts of service.
+                                                        _Hugh Black_
+
+
+  Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them
+  tenderly and truly.
+                                                   _A. Bronson Alcott_
+
+
+  Faithful are the wounds of a friend,
+  But the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
+  Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart:
+  So doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.
+  Iron sharpeneth iron;
+  So a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
+
+                                  _Proverbs_ xxvii. 6, 9, 17
+
+
+  Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals.
+
+                                             _Goldsmith_
+
+
+  To take the advice of some few friends is ever honourable; for
+  lookers-on many times see more than gamesters, and the vale best
+  discovereth the hill.
+                                                           _Bacon_
+
+
+  Here around the ingle bleezing,
+  Wha sae happy and sae free;
+  Tho' the northern wind blaws freezing,
+  Frien'ship warms baith you and me.
+
+                                 _Burns_
+
+
+  Friends are the leaders of the bosom, being more ourselves than we
+  are, and we complement our affections in theirs.
+                                                 _A. Bronson Alcott_
+
+
+  Where you have friends you should not go to inns.
+
+                                     _George Eliot_
+
+
+  More things are wrought by prayer
+  Than this world dreams of. Wherefore, let thy voice
+  Rise like a fountain for me night and day.
+  For what are men better than sheep or goats
+  That nourish a blind life within the brain,
+  If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer
+  Both for themselves and those who call them friend?
+
+                                           _Tennyson_
+
+
+  If I mayn't tell you what I feel, what is the use of a friend?
+
+                                                     _Thackeray_
+
+
+  I take of worthy men whate'er they give:
+  Their heart I gladly take, if not, their hand;
+  If that, too, is withheld, a courteous word,
+  Or the civility of placid looks.
+
+                                _Joanna Baillie_
+
+
+  Friendship maketh a fair day in the affections, from storm and
+  tempest; but it maketh daylight in the understanding, out of
+  darkness and confusion of thoughts.
+                                                         _Bacon_
+
+
+  He who will not to friends' advice attend;
+  Must not complain when they him reprehend.
+
+                                     _Saadi_
+
+
+  There is no such flatterer as is a man's self, and there is no such
+  remedy against flattery of a man's self as the liberty of a friend.
+
+                                                              _Bacon_
+
+
+  Let flattery, however, the bond-maid of vices, be far removed from
+  friendship, since it is not only unworthy of a friend, but of a free
+  man.
+                                                              _Cicero_
+
+
+  How were friendship possible? In mutual devotedness to the Good and
+  True: otherwise impossible, except as armed neutrality or hollow
+  commercial league. A man, be the heavens ever praised, is sufficient
+  for himself; yet were ten men, united in love, capable of being and
+  of doing what ten thousand singly would fail in. Infinite is the
+  help man can yield to man.
+                                                             _Carlyle_
+
+
+  A real friend is one who will tell you of your faults and follies in
+  prosperity, and assist you with his hand and heart in adversity.
+
+                                                        _Horace Smith_
+
+
+  There be three sorts of friends: the first is like a torch we meet
+  in a dark street; the second is like a candle in a lanthorn that we
+  overtake; the third is like a link that offers itself to the
+  stumbling passenger. The met torch is the sweet-lipped friend, which
+  lends us a flash of compliment for the time, but quickly leaves us
+  to our former darkness. The over-taken lanthorn is the true friend,
+  which, though it promise but a faint light, yet it goes along with
+  us as far as it can to our journey's end. The offered link is the
+  mercenary friend, which though it be ready enough to do us service,
+  yet that service hath a servile relation to our bounty.
+                                                             _Quarles_
+
+
+  That which is most beneficent is also most excellent; and therefore
+  those friendships must needs be most perfect where the friends can
+  be most useful.
+                                                      _Jeremy Taylor_
+
+
+  I would not live without the love of my friends.
+
+                                           _Keats_
+
+
+  Every man has frequent grievances which only the solicitude of
+  friendship will discover and remedy, and which would remain forever
+  unheeded in the mighty heap of human calamity, were it only surveyed
+  by the eye of general benevolence equally attractive to every
+  misery.
+                                                      _Samuel Johnson_
+
+
+  There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friend, but he joyeth
+  the more; and no man that imparteth his griefs to his friend, but he
+  grieveth the less.
+                                                               _Bacon_
+
+
+
+
+Devotion of Friendship
+
+
+  Friendship? two bodies and one soul.
+
+                         _Joseph Roux_
+
+
+  It is easy to say how we love _new_ friends, and what we think of
+  them, but words can never trace out all the fibres that knit us to
+  the _old_.
+                                                      _George Eliot_
+
+
+      We still have slept together,
+  Rose at an instant, learn'd, play'd, eat together:
+  And wheresoe'er we went like Juno's swans,
+  Still we went coupled, and inseparable.
+
+                                       _Shakespeare_
+
+
+  Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles; have no friends
+  not equal to yourself.
+                                                           _Confucius_
+
+
+  Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes.
+  They were easiest for his feet.
+                                                     _John Selden_
+
+
+  Men have sometimes exchanged names with their friends, as if they
+  would signify that in their friend each loved his own soul.
+
+                                                          _Emerson_
+
+
+  A generous friendship no cold medium knows,
+  Burns with one love, with one resentment glows,
+  One should our interests and our passions be,
+  My friend must hate the man that injures me.
+
+                                           _Pope_
+
+
+  Keep thy friend under thy own life's key.
+
+                              _Shakespeare_
+
+
+  Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for
+  his friends.
+                                                         _John_ xv. 13
+
+
+  The friendship of the pure-minded, whether in presence or absence,
+  is not such that they will find fault with thee behind thy back, and
+  die for thee in thy presence.
+                                                               _Saadi_
+
+
+  "Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship
+  Let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest!"
+
+                                                        _Longfellow_
+
+
+  Friendship like love is but a name,
+  Unless to one you stint the flame.
+  The child, whom many fathers share,
+  Hath seldom known a father's care.
+  'Tis thus in friendships; who depend
+  On many, rarely find a friend.
+
+                                 _Gay_
+
+
+  There must be many a pair of friends
+  Who, arm in arm, deserve the warm
+  Moon-births and the long evening-ends.
+  So, for their sake, be May still May!
+
+                       _Robert Browning_
+
+
+  When two friends part, they should lock up each other's secrets and
+  exchange keys.
+                                                               _Anon_
+
+
+
+
+Joy of Friendship
+
+
+  Life is to be fortified by many friendships.
+  To love, and to be loved, is the greatest happiness of existence.
+
+                                                     _Sydney Smith_
+
+
+  The joy that comes from a true communion of heart with another is
+  perhaps one of the purest and greatest in the world.
+                                                       _Hugh Black_
+
+
+  What joy is better than the news of friends
+  Whose memories were a solace to me oft,
+  As mountain-baths to wild fowls in their flight.
+
+                                 _Robert Browning_
+
+
+  Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.
+
+                                _A. Bronson Alcott_
+
+
+  Who is not ready to acknowledge that friendship is the delight of
+  youth, the pillar of age, the bloom of prosperity, the charm of
+  solitude, the solace of adversity, the best benefactor and comforter
+  in this vale of tears?
+                                                                _Anon_
+
+
+
+
+Reasonableness of Friendship
+
+
+  However well proved a friendship may appear, there are confidences
+  which it should not hear, and sacrifices which should not be
+  required of it.
+                                                       _Joseph Roux_
+
+
+  Costly followers are not to be liked; lest while a man maketh his
+  train longer, he maketh his wings shorter.
+                                                            _Bacon_
+
+
+  Animals are such agreeable friends--they ask no questions, they pass
+  no criticisms.
+                                                        _George Eliot_
+
+
+  Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to
+  learn unpleasant truths from his enemies; they are ready enough to
+  tell them.
+                                             _Oliver Wendell Holmes_
+
+
+  A true friend will appear such in leaving us to act according to our
+  intimate conviction,--will cherish this nobleness of sentiment, will
+  never wish to substitute his power for our own.
+
+                                             _William Ellery Channing_
+
+
+  The man who prefers his dearest friend to the call of duty will soon
+  show that he prefers himself to his dearest friend.
+                                                     _F. W. Robertson_
+
+
+  If you could keep your friend, approach him with a telescope, never
+  with the microscope.
+                                                               _Anon_
+
+
+  Give not thy friend so much power that if one day he should become a
+  foe, thou mayst not be able to resist him.
+                                                               _Saadi_
+
+
+  Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorises you to say
+  disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer
+  you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and
+  courtesy become.
+                                               _Oliver Wendell Holmes_
+
+
+  Keep your undrest, familiar style for strangers, but respect your
+  friend.
+                                                 _Coventry Patmore_
+
+
+
+
+Profession of Friendship
+
+
+  Let us, then, be what we are, and speak what we think, and in all
+    things
+  Keep ourselves loyal to truth, and the sacred professions of
+    friendship.
+                                                       _Longfellow_
+
+
+  It is good discretion not to make too much of any man at first,
+  because one cannot hold out that proportion.
+                                                          _Bacon_
+
+
+  The man that hails you Tom or Jack,
+  And proves by thumps upon your back
+  How he esteems your merit,
+  Is such a friend that one had need
+  Be very much his friend indeed
+  To pardon or to bear it.
+
+                             _Cowper_
+
+
+  I have not from your eyes that gentleness,
+  And show of love, as I was wont to have;
+  You bear too stubborn and too strange a hand,
+  Over your friend that loves you.
+
+                                  _Shakespeare_
+
+
+  When an enemy has tried every expedient in vain, he will pretend
+  friendship, and then, by this pretext, execute designs which no
+  enemy could have effected.
+                                                           _Saadi_
+
+
+  Worldly friendship is profuse in honeyed words, passionate
+  endearments, commendations of beauty, while true friendship speaks a
+  simple honest language.
+                                                    _Francis de Sales_
+
+
+  Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspected
+  as it does religion.
+                                                         _Wycherley_
+
+
+                        I am weary
+  Of the bewildering masquerade of Life,
+  Where strangers walk as friends and friends as strangers;
+  Where whispers overheard betray false hearts;
+  And through the mazes of the crowd we chase
+  Some form of loveliness, that smiles, and beckons,
+  And cheats us with fair words, only to leave us
+  A mockery and a jest; maddened, confused,--
+  Not knowing friend from foe.
+                                               _Longfellow_
+
+
+
+
+Test of Friendship
+
+
+  A friend should be like money--tried before being required, not
+  found faulty in our need.
+                                                       _Plutarch_
+
+
+  He is our friend who loves more than admires us, and would aid us in
+  our great work.
+                                             _William Ellery Channing_
+
+
+  Know this, that he that is a friend to himself, is a friend to all
+  men.
+                                                            _Seneca_
+
+
+  A friend is he who sets his heart upon us, is happy with us, and
+  delights in us; does for us what we want, is willing and fully
+  engaged to do all he can for us, on whom we can rely in all cases.
+
+                                           _William Ellery Channing_
+
+
+  To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling
+  than to fill with credit and complacency any other station or
+  capacity in social life.
+                                                           _Mrs Ellis_
+
+
+  There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself; we
+  cannot force it any more than love.
+                                                         _Hazlitt_
+
+
+  If thou wouldst get a friend, prove him first, and be not hasty to
+  credit him. For some man is a friend for his own occasion, and will
+  not abide in the day of trouble.
+                                                     _Ecclesiasticus_
+
+
+  When I see leaves drop from their trees in the beginning of autumn,
+  just such, think I, is the friendship of the world. Whilst the sap
+  of maintenance lasts, my friends swarm in abundance; but in the
+  winter of my need they leave me naked. He is a happy man that hath a
+  true friend at his need; but he is more truly happy that hath no
+  need of his friend.
+                                                             _Warwick_
+
+
+  As the yellow gold is tried in the fire, so the faith of friendship
+  must be seen in adversity.
+                                                               _Ovid_
+
+
+  True friendship, like a star, is made brilliant by the dark night.
+
+                                                              _Anon_
+
+
+
+
+Proof of Friendship
+
+
+  That friendship only is genuine when two friends, without speaking a
+  word to each other, can, nevertheless, find happiness in being
+  together.
+                                                        _George Ebers_
+
+
+  Promises may get friends, but it is performance that must nurse and
+  keep them.
+                                                      _Owen Felltham_
+
+
+  He is a friend who, in dubious circumstances, aids in deeds when
+  deeds are necessary.
+                                                         _Plautus_
+
+
+  In friendship your heart is like a bell struck every time your
+  friend is in trouble.
+                                            _Henry Ward Beecher_
+
+
+  Let me be alone to the end of the world, rather than that my friend
+  should overstep by a word or a look his real sympathy.
+                                                            _Emerson_
+
+
+  The vital air of friendship is composed of confidence.
+
+                                           _Joseph Roux_
+
+
+  Friendship closes its eyes rather than see the moon eclipst; while
+  malice denies that it is ever at the full.
+                                              _J. C. and A. W. Hare_
+
+
+  The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
+
+                                           _Henry D. Thoreau_
+
+
+  It is a proof of a man's fitness for friendship that he is able to
+  do without that which is cheap and passionate. A true friendship is
+  as wise as it is tender.
+                                                   _Henry D. Thoreau_
+
+
+  A foe to God was ne'er true friend to man,
+  Some sinister intent taints all he does.
+
+                                     _Young_
+
+
+  The silence of a friend commonly amounts to treachery. His not
+  daring to say anything in our behalf implies a tacit censure.
+
+                                                       _Hazlitt_
+
+
+  Think not thy friend one who in fortune's hour
+  Boasts of his friendship and fraternity.
+  Him I call friend who sums up all his power
+  To aid thee in distress and misery.
+                                         _Saadi_
+
+
+
+
+Constancy of Friendship
+
+
+  A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
+
+                                                 _Proverbs_ xvii. 17
+
+
+  Oh happy days, oh early friends,
+  How Life since then hath lost its flowers!
+  But yet--tho' Time _some_ foliage rends,
+  The stem, the Friendship, still is ours;
+  And long may it endure, as green
+  And fresh as it hath always been!
+
+                              _Thomas Moore_
+
+
+  A true friend is for ever a friend.
+
+                   _George MacDonald_
+
+
+  Your friend has never really loved you, never quite trusted you, who
+  lightly lets himself think that you have drifted away from him.
+
+                                                      _Bishop Thorold_
+
+
+  There are three faithful friends--an old wife, an old dog, and ready
+  money.
+                                                   _Benjamin Franklin_
+
+
+  Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
+  And never brought to mind?
+  Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
+  And days o' lang syne?
+
+                              _Burns_
+
+
+  There is no treasure the which may be compared unto a faithful friend;
+  Gold soone decayeth, and worldly wealth consumeth and wasteth in the
+    winde:
+  But love once planted in a perfect and pure minde endureth weale or
+    woe;
+  The frownes of fortune, come they never so unkinde, cannot the same
+    overthrowe.
+                                                     _Roxburghe Ballads_
+
+
+  I am not of that feather to shake off
+  My friend when he must need me.
+
+                          _Shakespeare_
+
+
+  The faults of our friends ought never to anger us so far as to give
+  an advantage to our enemies.
+                                                  _Lord Chesterfield_
+
+
+  Love is and was my Lord and King,
+    And in his presence I attend
+    To hear the tidings of my friend,
+  Which every hour his couriers bring.
+
+                            _Tennyson_
+
+
+  So Life's year begins and closes;
+  Days, though short'ning, still can shine;
+  What though youth gave love and roses,
+  Age still leaves us friends and wine.
+
+                             _Thomas Moore_
+
+
+  "Let all be forgotten between us--
+  All save the dear old friendship, and that shall grow older and
+    dearer.
+                                                     _Longfellow_
+
+
+
+
+Lack of Friends
+
+
+  It is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends, without
+  which the world is but a wilderness.
+                                                            _Bacon_
+
+
+  Ill-starred, indeed, is he who injures men:
+  Is fortune adverse, he is friendless then.
+
+                                      _Saadi_
+
+
+  Those that want friends are cannibals of their own hearts.
+  Communicating a man's self to his friends redoubleth his joys and
+  cutteth griefs in halves. A friend is another _himself_. If a man
+  have not a friend, he may quit the world's stage!
+                                                            _Bacon_
+
+
+  A favourite has no friend.
+
+                      _Gray_
+
+
+  It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends; the mean and
+  cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
+
+                                                  _Charles Kingsley_
+
+
+  We walk alone in the world. Friends such as we desire are dreams and
+  fables. But a sublime hope cheers ever the faithful heart, that
+  elsewhere, in other regions of the universal power, souls are now
+  acting, enduring, and daring, which can love us and which we can
+  love.
+                                                             _Emerson_
+
+
+
+
+Loss of Friendship
+
+
+  Alas! they had been friends in youth;
+  But whispering tongues can poison truth;
+  And constancy lives in realms above;
+  And life is thorny; and youth is vain;
+  And to be wroth with one we love
+  Doth work like madness in the brain.
+
+                               _Coleridge_
+
+
+  Intimacies which increase vanity destroy friendship.
+
+                             _William Ellery Channing_
+
+
+  Between friends, frequent reproofs make the friendship distant.
+
+                                                      _Confucius_
+
+
+  Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions, because we have
+  made them a texture of wine and dreams, instead of the tough fibre
+  of the human heart. The laws of friendship are great, austere, and
+  eternal, of one web with the laws of nature and of morals.
+
+                                                             _Emerson_
+
+
+  Each spoke words of high disdain
+  And insult to his heart's best brother:
+  They parted--ne'er to meet again!
+  But never either found another
+  To free the hollow heart from paining--
+  They stood aloof, the scars remaining,
+  Like cliffs which had been rent asunder;
+  A dreary sea now flows between.
+  But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder,
+  Shall wholly do away, I ween,
+  The marks of that which once hath been.
+
+                                _Coleridge_
+
+
+
+
+Loss of Friends
+
+
+  What greetings smile, what farewells wave,
+  What loved ones enter and depart!
+  The good, the beautiful, the brave,
+  The Heaven-lent treasures of the heart!
+  How conscious seems the frozen sod
+  And beechen slope whereon they trod!
+  The oak-leaves rustle, and the dry grass bends
+  Beneath the shadowy feet of lost or absent friends.
+
+                                           _Whittier_
+
+
+  O friend! O best of friends! Thy absence more
+  Than the impending night darkens the landscape o'er!
+
+                                          _Longfellow_
+
+
+  What shall I do, my friend,
+  When you are gone forever?
+  My heart its eager need will send
+  Through the years to find you never,
+  And how will it be with you,
+  In the weary world I wonder,
+  Will you love me with a love as true,
+  When our paths be far asunder?
+
+                         _Mary Clemmer_
+
+
+  A man dies as he looses his friends.
+
+                               _Bacon_
+
+
+  We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a
+  widower, that man who has lost his wife.... And that man who has
+  known the immense unhappiness of losing his friend, by what name do
+  we call him?... Here every human language holds its peace in
+  impotence.
+                                                        _Joseph Roux_
+
+
+  The fallying out of faithful frends is the renuyng of love.
+
+                                            _Richard Edwards_
+
+
+  Alas! how light a cause may move
+  Dissension between hearts that love!--
+  Hearts, that the world in vain had tried
+  And sorrow but more closely tied;
+  That stood the storm when waves were rough,
+  Yet in a sunny hour fall off:--
+  Like ships that have gone down at sea,
+  When heaven is all tranquillity!
+
+                               _Thomas Moore_
+
+
+  Waste not the hour of friendship; outside this House of Two Doors
+  Friends shall soon part asunder, no more together wending.
+
+                                                            _Hafiz_
+
+
+  How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! O Jonathan,
+  thou wast slain in thine high places. I am distressed for thee, my
+  brother Jonathan: Very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to
+  me was wonderful, passing the love of women.
+
+                                                 2 _Samuel_ i. 25, 26
+
+
+  Some tears fell down my cheeks and then I smiled,
+  As those smile who have no face in the world
+  To smile back to them. I had lost a friend.
+
+                                     _Mrs Browning_
+
+
+  Forgive my grief for one removed,
+  Thy creature, whom I found so fair.
+  I trust he lives in thee, and there
+  I find him worthier to be loved.
+
+                           _Tennyson_
+
+
+      To wail friends lost
+  Is not by much so wholesome--profitable,
+  As to rejoice at friends but newly found.
+
+                              _Shakespeare_
+
+
+  That aching of the breast, the grandest pain that man endures, which
+  no other can assuage.
+                                                    _Henry D. Thoreau_
+
+
+
+
+Immortality of Friendship
+
+
+  A day for toil, an hour for sport,
+  But for a friend is life too short.
+
+                            _Emerson_
+
+
+  Let us lay hold of Friendship. In the eternal life shall we not have
+  friends for evermore?
+                                                       _Anna R. Brown_
+
+
+  Love is a sudden blaze which soon decays,
+  Friendship is like the sun's eternal rays.
+
+                                       _Gay_
+
+
+  Fast as the rolling seasons bring
+  The hour of fate to those we love,
+  Each pearl that leaves the broken string
+  Is set in friendship's crown above.
+  As narrower grows the earthly chain,
+  The circle widens in the sky;
+  These are our treasures that remain,
+  But those are stars that beam on high.
+
+                            _O. W. Holmes_
+
+
+  True friendship between man and man is infinite and immortal.
+
+                                                        _Plato_
+
+
+  Sweet human hand and lips and eye,
+  Dear heavenly friend that canst not die;
+  Strange friend, past, present and to be;
+  Loved deeplier, darklier understood;
+  Behold I dream a dream of good,
+  And mingle all the world with thee.
+
+  Thy voice is on the rolling air;
+  I hear thee where the waters run;
+  Thou standest in the rising sun,
+  And in the setting thou art fair.
+
+                                _Tennyson_
+
+
+  Not mine the sad and freezing dream
+  Of souls that, with their earthly mould,
+  Cast off the loves and joys of old,--
+       *       *       *       *       *
+  No!--I have friends in Spirit Land,--
+  Not shadows in a shadowy band,
+  Not _others_, but _themselves_ are they.
+  And still I think of them the same
+  As when the Master's summons came.
+
+                                _Whittier_
+
+
+  The way is short, O friend,
+  That reaches out before us;
+  God's tender heavens above us bend,
+  His love is smiling o'er us;
+  A little while is ours
+  For sorrow or for laughter;
+  I'll lay the hand you love in yours
+  On the shore of the Hereafter.
+
+                       _Mary Clemmer_
+
+
+  Yet less of sorrow lives in me
+    For days of happy commune dead;
+    Less yearning for the friendship fled,
+  Than some strong bond which is to be.
+
+                                _Tennyson_
+
+
+
+
+Index of Authors
+
+
+  Addison, 7
+
+  Alcott, A. B., 43, 44, 57
+
+  Anon, 26, 56, 57, 60, 68
+
+  Aristotle, 39
+
+  Arnot, 25
+
+
+  Bacon, 42, 44, 46, 47, 51, 58, 61, 76, 77, 83
+
+  Baillie, Joanna, 46
+
+  Ballads, Roxburghe, 74
+
+  Beecher, H. W., 69
+
+  Birrell, Augustine, 30
+
+  Black, Hugh, 9, 13, 18, 38, 42, 56
+
+  Blair, 31
+
+  Brown, Anna R., 32, 35, 87
+
+  Browning, Robert, 9, 11, 27, 55, 57
+
+  Browning, Mrs, 85
+
+  Bruyère, De la, 14
+
+  Burns, 44, 73
+
+  Byron, 28
+
+
+  Canticles, 26
+
+  Carlyle, 48
+
+  Channing, W. E., 42, 59, 65, 66, 79
+
+  Chesterfield, Lord, 75
+
+  Cicero, 7, 27, 37, 47
+
+  Clemmer, M., 82, 91
+
+  Coleridge, 35, 78, 80
+
+  Colton, 8, 32
+
+  Confucius, 22, 52, 79
+
+  Cowper, 62
+
+
+  Drummond, Henry, 15
+
+
+  Ebers, 68
+
+  Ecclesiasticus, 36, 67
+
+  Edwards, R., 83
+
+  Eliot, George, 45, 51, 58
+
+  Ellis, Mrs, 66
+
+  Emerson, 7, 8, 14, 15, 17, 19, 20, 22, 23, 24, 28, 33, 39, 42, 53, 69,
+    78, 79, 87
+
+  Euripides, 34
+
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+  Felltham, Owen, 69
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+  Fénelon, 30
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+  Fielding, 21
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+  Franklin, B., 73
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+  Gay, 24, 55, 87
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+  Goldsmith, 38, 43
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+  Gray, 77
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+  Hafiz, 12, 84
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+  Hare, J. C. and A. W., 70
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+  Hazlitt, 66, 71
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+  Holmes, O. W., 18, 59, 60, 88
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+  Homer, 41
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+  Jerrold, Douglas, 13
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+  John, St, 25, 54
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+  Johnson, Samuel, 13, 50
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+  Jonson, Ben, 30
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+  Keats, 50
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+  Kingsley, C., 77
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+  Longfellow, 15, 29, 33, 36, 54, 61, 64, 76, 82
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+  MacDonald, George, 73
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+  Montaigne, 37
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+  Moore, Thomas, 31, 72, 75, 84
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+  Ovid, 68
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+  Patmore, Coventry, 61
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+  Philips, Catherine, 12, 20
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+  Plutarch, 25, 65
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+  Pope, 53
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+  Proverb, German, 35
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+  Proverb, Oriental, 33
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+  Proverbs, The, 11, 26, 43, 72
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+  Quarles, 49
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+  Robertson, F. W., 59
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+  Samuel (Book of), 85
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+  Schiller, 35
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+  Scuderi, Mlle. de, 17
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+  Selden, 52
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+  Seneca, 31, 65
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+  Taylor, Jeremy, 8, 24, 32, 39, 40, 50
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+  Theophrastus, 40
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+  Thorold, Bishop, 34, 73
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+  Throckmorton, Allan, 10
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+  Warwick, 67
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+  Wilson, Thomas, 40
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+  Young, 21, 71
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+42. Marjorie Fleming. <i>Brown.</i><br />
+43. Poems of the East.<br />
+44. Gems from Balzac.<br />
+45. Thoughts from Tolstoi.<br />
+46. Thoughts from Jerome K. Jerome.<br />
+47. Thoughts from H. G. Wells.<br />
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+49. Thoughts from Augustine Birrell.<br />
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+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[Pg 4]</a></span></p>
+
+<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table">
+<tr><td>
+"<i>A link to bind when circumstances part;<br />
+A nerve of feeling stretched from heart to heart.</i>"</td></tr></table>
+
+<p class="center">The Riverside Press Ltd., Edinburgh</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[Pg 5]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/i_deco1.png" alt="" /></div>
+<p class="center"><span class="huge">Foreword</span></p>
+
+
+<p class="cap"><i>FRIENDSHIP is one of the most important things in the world. As a
+factor in educating the mind, forming the character, guiding the will,
+and shaping the destiny, the influence of Friendship can scarcely be
+overrated. Friendship has made a man a hero, a saint, a demon!</i></p>
+
+<p><i>It is to be hoped, therefore, that these Golden Thoughts on
+Friendship&mdash;garnered from a wide field&mdash;will prove helpful and inspiring</i>
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[Pg 6]</a></span><i>and tend to create pure and noble ideals in the minds of readers.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>The touching story of David and Jonathan continues to possess a
+surpassing charm for humanity; and the voyager over Life's ocean who
+discovers a true friend discovers an island offering a safe, quiet haven
+from every storm that blows, and which presents innumerable luscious
+fruits and sweet-scented flowers for his refreshment and enjoyment.</i></p>
+
+<p class="right"><i>A. E. S.</i></p>
+
+
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[Pg 7]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/i_deco2.png" alt="" /></div>
+<p class="center"><span class="huge">Birth of Friendship</span></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="blockquot">Nature loves nothing solitary, and always reaches out to something
+as a support, which ever in the sweetest friend is most delightful.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Cicero</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table">
+<tr><td>
+Great souls by instinct to each other turn,<br />
+Demand alliance, and in friendship burn.</td></tr></table>
+<p class="bqright"><i>Addison</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center">The only way to have a friend, is to be one.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Emerson</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[Pg 8]</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="center">Some friendships are made by <i>nature</i>, some by <i>contract</i>, some by
+<i>interest</i>, and some by <i>souls</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Jeremy Taylor</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="blockquot">The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as
+iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Colton</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="blockquot">Only that soul can be my friend which I encounter on the line of my
+own march, that soul to which I do not decline and which does not
+decline to me, but, native of the same celestial latitude, repeats
+in its own all my experience.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Emerson</i></p>
+
+
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/i_deco1.png" alt="" /></div>
+<p class="center"><span class="huge">Culture of Friendship</span></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center">It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Thackeray</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center">We have few friendships, because we are not willing to pay the price
+of friendship.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Hugh Black</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table">
+<tr><td>
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">Hand</span><br />
+Grasps hand, eye lights eye in good friendship,<br />
+And great hearts expand,<br />
+And grow one in the sense of this world's life.</td></tr></table>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Robert Browning</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[Pg 10]</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="blockquot">A friend whom you have been gaining during your whole life, you
+ought not to be displeased with in a moment. A stone is many years
+becoming a ruby; take care that you do not destroy it in an instant
+against another stone.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Saadi</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="blockquot">Once let friendship be given that is born of God, nor time nor
+circumstance can change it to a lessening; it must be mutual growth,
+increasing trust, widening faith, enduring patience, forgiving love,
+unselfish ambition&mdash;an affection built before the Throne, that will
+bear the test of time and trial.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Allan Throckmorton</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="blockquot">A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a
+friend that sticketh closer than a brother.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Proverbs</i> xviii. 24</p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table">
+<tr><td>
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">You'll never hope</span><br />
+To be such friends, for instance she and you,<br />
+As when you hunted cowslips in the woods<br />
+Or played together in the meadow hay.<br />
+Oh yes&mdash;with age, respect comes, and your worth<br />
+Is felt, there's growing sympathy of tastes,<br />
+There's ripened friendship, there's confirmed esteem.</td></tr></table>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Robert Browning</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</a></span></p>
+
+<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table">
+<tr><td>
+Plant thou the tree of friendship only; so shall thy heart's desire bear fruit:<br />
+Uproot thou hatred's plant completely, or woes unnumbered thence may shoot.</td></tr></table>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Hafiz</i></p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/i_deco2.png" alt="" /></div>
+<p class="center"><span class="huge">Sacredness of Friendship</span></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table">
+<tr><td>
+Friendship's an abstract of this noble flame,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">'Tis love refin'd, and purged from all its dross,</span><br />
+'Tis next to angels' love, if not the same,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">As strong in passion is, though not so gross.</span></td></tr></table>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Catherine Philips</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="blockquot">Golden friendship is not a common thing to be picked up in the
+street.... There are pearls of the heart, which cannot be thrown to
+swine.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Hugh Black</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table">
+<tr><td>
+Friendship, peculiar boon of Heaven,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">The noble mind's delight and pride,</span><br />
+To men and angels only given,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">To all the lower world denied.</span></td></tr></table>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Samuel Johnson</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center">O Friendship! thou divinest alchemist, that man should ever profane
+thee!</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Douglas Jerrold</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="center">Pure friendship is something which men of inferior intellect can
+never taste.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>De la Bruyère</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="blockquot">The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and
+trust. It must not surmise or provide for infirmity. It treats its
+object as a god that it may deify both.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Emerson</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="blockquot">For perfect friendship it may be said to require natures so rare and
+costly, so well tempered each, and so happily adapted, and withal so
+circumstanced that very seldom can its satisfaction be realised.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Emerson</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[Pg 15]</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="blockquot">Love shows me the opulence of nature, by disclosing to me in my
+friend a hidden wealth, and I infer an equal depth of good in every
+other direction.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Emerson</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="blockquot">Who talks of a <i>common</i> friendship? There is no such thing in the
+world. On earth no word is more sublime. Friendship is the nearest
+thing we know to what religion is. God is love.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Henry Drummond</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table">
+<tr><td>
+"You will forgive me, I hope, for the sake of the friendship between us,<br />
+Which is too true and too sacred to be so easily broken!"</td></tr></table>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Longfellow</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[Pg 16]</a></span></p>
+
+<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table">
+<tr><td>
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">He that wrongs his friend</span><br />
+Wrongs himself more, and ever bears about<br />
+A silent court of justice in his breast,<br />
+Himself the judge and jury, and himself<br />
+The prisoner at the bar, ever condemn'd:<br />
+And that drags down his life.</td></tr></table>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Tennyson</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center">Friendship is the marriage of the soul.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Voltaire</i></p>
+
+
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[Pg 17]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/i_deco1.png" alt="" /></div>
+<p class="center"><span class="huge">Beauty of Friendship</span></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center">A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Emerson</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="blockquot">The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed:
+there is no winter, and no night: all tragedies, all ennuis vanish;
+all duties even; nothing fills the preceding eternity but the forms
+all radiant of beloved persons.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Emerson</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center">The only rose without thorns is friendship.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Mlle. de Scuderi</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[Pg 18]</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="blockquot">To the young friendship comes as the glory of spring, a very miracle
+of beauty, a mystery of birth: to the old it has the bloom of
+autumn, beautiful still, but with the beauty of decay.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Hugh Black</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table">
+<tr><td>
+The pledge of Friendship! it is still divine,<br />
+Though watery floods have quenched its burning wine;<br />
+Whatever vase the sacred drops may hold,<br />
+The gourd, the shell, the cup of beaten gold,<br />
+Around its brim the bond of Nature throws<br />
+A garland sweeter than the banquet's rose.</td></tr></table>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>O. W. Holmes</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[Pg 19]</a></span></p>
+
+<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table">
+<tr><td>
+O friend, my bosom said,<br />
+Through thee alone the sky is arched,<br />
+Through thee the rose is red;<br />
+All things through thee take nobler form,<br />
+And look beyond the earth,<br />
+The mill-round of our fate appears<br />
+A sun-path in thy worth.<br />
+Me too thy nobleness has taught<br />
+To master my despair;<br />
+The fountains of my hidden life<br />
+Are through thy friendship fair.</td></tr></table>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Emerson</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table">
+<tr><td>
+Friend is a word of royal tone;<br />
+Friend is a poem all alone.</td></tr></table>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>From the Persian</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[Pg 20]</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="blockquot">Happy is the house that shelters a friend! It might well be built
+like a festal bower or arch, to entertain him a single day.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Emerson</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table">
+<tr><td>
+Thick waters show no images of things;<br />
+Friends are each other's mirrors, and should be<br />
+Clearer than crystal, or the mountain-springs,<br />
+And free from clouds, design, or flattery.<br />
+For vulgar souls no part of friendship share;<br />
+Poets and friends are born to what they are.</td></tr></table>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Catherine Philips</i></p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[Pg 21]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/i_deco2.png" alt="" /></div>
+<p class="center"><span class="huge">Choice of Friendship</span></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table">
+<tr><td>
+First on thy friend deliberate with thyself,<br />
+Pause, ponder, sift; not eager in the choice,<br />
+Nor jealous of the chosen: fixing, fix;&mdash;<br />
+Judge before friendship, then confide till death.</td></tr></table>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Young</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center">The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Fielding</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[Pg 22]</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="blockquot">Friendship demands a religious treatment. We must not be wilful, we
+must not provide. We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are
+self-elected. Reverence is a great part of it.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Emerson</i></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/i_deco3.png" alt="" /></div>
+
+<p class="blockquot">Friendship with the upright; friendship with the sincere; and
+friendship with the man of much observation: these are advantageous.
+Friendship with the man of specious airs; friendship with the
+insinuatingly soft; and friendship with the glib-tongued: these are
+injurious.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Confucius</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[Pg 23]</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="center">Oh, be my friend, and teach me to be thine!</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Emerson</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center">My friends have come to me unsought; the great God gave them to me.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Emerson</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table">
+<tr><td>
+The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,<br />
+Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;<br />
+But do not dull thy palm with entertainment<br />
+Of each new-hatch'd, unfledged comrade.</td></tr></table>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Shakespeare</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="center">He makes no friend who never made a foe.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Tennyson</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table">
+<tr><td>
+Who friendship with a knave hath made<br />
+Is judg'd a partner in the trade.</td></tr></table>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Gay</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center">A man's friends are his magnetisms.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Emerson</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="blockquot">A good man is the best friend, and therefore soonest to be chosen,
+longer to be retained, and, indeed, never to be parted with, unless
+he cease to be that for which he was chosen.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Jeremy Taylor</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[Pg 25]</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="center">Friendship sealed by companionship in sin will not last long.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Arnot</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table">
+<tr><td>
+Eschew that friend, if thou art wise,<br />
+Who consorts with thy enemies.</td></tr></table>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Saadi</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="blockquot">Friendship requires a steady, constant, and unchangeable character,
+a person that is uniform in his intimacy.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Plutarch</i></p>
+
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/i_deco1.png" alt="" /></div>
+<p class="center"><span class="huge">Divine Friendship</span></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center">Ye are My friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>John</i> xv. 14</p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[Pg 26]</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="blockquot">His mouth is most sweet: yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my
+beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Canticles</i> v. 16</p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center">He that loveth pureness of heart, for the grace of his lips the King
+shall be his friend.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Proverbs</i> xxii. 11</p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="blockquot">It is said that when he came to die, the last words of the American
+President Edwards, after bidding his weeping relatives good-bye,
+were: "Now where is Jesus of Nazareth, my true and never-failing
+Friend?" So saying he fell asleep.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Anon</i></p>
+
+
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[Pg 27]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/i_deco2.png" alt="" /></div>
+<p class="center"><span class="huge">Reality of Friendship</span></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center">Friendship is the ideal, friends are the reality; reality always
+remains far apart from the ideal.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Joseph Roux</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center">They seem to take away the sun from the world who withdraw
+friendship from life.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Cicero</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table">
+<tr><td>
+<span style="margin-left: 4em;">You're my friend&mdash;</span><br />
+What a thing friendship is, world without end!<br />
+How it gives the heart and soul a stir up!</td></tr></table>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Robert Browning</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[Pg 28]</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="center">Friendship is Love without his wings!</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Byron</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="blockquot">I do not wish to treat friendships daintily, but with roughest
+courage. When they are real, they are not glass threads or
+frostwork, but the solidest thing we know.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Emerson</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="blockquot">Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a
+distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Henry D. Thoreau</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[Pg 29]</a></span></p>
+
+<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table">
+<tr><td>
+O, weary hearts! O, slumbering eyes!<br />
+O, drooping souls, whose destinies<br />
+Are fraught with fear and pain,<br />
+Ye shall be loved again!<br />
+<br />
+No one is so accursed by fate,<br />
+No one so utterly desolate,<br />
+But some heart, though unknown,<br />
+Responds unto his own.<br />
+<br />
+Responds,&mdash;as if with unseen wings,<br />
+An angel touched its quivering strings;<br />
+And whispers, in its song,<br />
+Where hast thou stayed so long?</td></tr></table>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Longfellow</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[Pg 30]</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="center">Friendship is a word the very sight of which in print makes the
+heart warm.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Augustine Birrell</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center">Real friends are our greatest joy and our greatest sorrow.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Fénelon</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center">Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Shakespeare</i></p>
+
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/i_deco1.png" alt="" /></div>
+<p class="center"><span class="huge">Worth of Friendship</span></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center">True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the
+worth and choice.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Ben Jonson</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[Pg 31]</a></span></p>
+
+<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table">
+<tr><td>
+Friendship, mysterious cement of the soul,<br />
+Sweetener of life, and solder of society,<br />
+I owe thee much: thou hast deserv'd from me<br />
+Far, far beyond what I can ever pay.</td></tr></table>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Blair</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table">
+<tr><td>
+Not all the works of Science, Art,<br />
+Or Genius in this world are worth<br />
+One genuine sigh that from the heart<br />
+Friendship or Love draws freshly forth.</td></tr></table>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Thomas Moore</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center">Friendship always benefits, while love sometimes injures.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Seneca</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[Pg 32]</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="blockquot">To have a friend is to have one of the sweetest gifts that life can
+bring: to be a friend is to have a solemn and tender education of
+soul from day to day.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Anna R. Brown</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="blockquot">Friendship is an allay of our sorrows, the ease of our passions, the
+discharge of our oppressions, the sanctuary to our calamities, the
+counsellor of our doubts, the clarity of our minds, the emission of
+our thoughts, the exercise and improvement of what we meditate.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Jeremy Taylor</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center">True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom
+known until it be lost.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Colton</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[Pg 33]</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="center">Friendship is an order of nobility; from its revelations we come
+more worthily into nature.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Emerson</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center">Ah, how good it feels! the hand of an old friend.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Longfellow</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table">
+<tr><td>
+He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,<br />
+But he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.</td></tr></table>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Oriental Proverb</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table">
+<tr><td>
+Nor scour the seas, nor sift mankind,<br />
+A poet or a friend to find;<br />
+Behold, he watches at the door,<br />
+Behold his shadow on the floor.</td></tr></table>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Emerson</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[Pg 34]</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="blockquot">A friend who will not despise us for our weakness, nor disown us for
+our sinfulness, nor tire of us for being troublesome, nor scoff at
+us for our sensibility, but who will patiently hear our tale, fully
+understand our regret, tenderly recognise our stumbling-blocks, and
+be honest enough to tell us the truth, cost us what it may&mdash;oh, do
+you not see what a real help he might be to us.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Bishop Thorold</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table">
+<tr><td>
+<span style="margin-left: 8em;">A friend</span><br />
+Welded into our life is more to us<br />
+Than twice five thousand kinsmen, one in blood.</td></tr></table>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Euripides</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[Pg 35]</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="center">I used to think that friendship meant happiness: I have learnt that
+it means discipline.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Anna R. Brown</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table">
+<tr><td>
+Dear is my friend&mdash;yet from my foe, as from my friend comes good:<br />
+My friend shows what I can do, and my foe what I should.</td></tr></table>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Schiller</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center">We can live without a brother, but not without a friend.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>German Proverb</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table">
+<tr><td>
+Love is flower-like;<br />
+Friendship is like a sheltering tree.</td></tr></table>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Coleridge</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[Pg 36]</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="center">You shall perceive how you mistake my fortunes; I am wealthy in my
+friends.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Shakespeare</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center">A faithful friend is the medicine of life.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Ecclesiasticus</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table">
+<tr><td>
+"I know and esteem you, and feel that your nature is noble,<br />
+Lifting mine up to a higher, a more ethereal level,<br />
+Therefore I value your friendship."</td></tr></table>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Longfellow</i></p>
+
+
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[Pg 37]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/i_deco2.png" alt="" /></div>
+<p class="center"><span class="huge">Disinterestedness of Friendship</span></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center">In friendship, there is no commerce or business depending on the
+same, but itself.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Montaigne</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center">You must therefore love me, myself, and not my circumstances, if we
+are to be real friends.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Cicero</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center">I can never think of promoting my convenience at the expense of a
+friend's interest and inclination.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>George Washington</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[Pg 38]</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="blockquot">There is possible to-day, as ever, a generous friendship which
+forgets self.... The miracle of friendship has been too often
+enacted on this dull earth of ours to suffer us to doubt either its
+possibility or its wondrous beauty.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Hugh Black</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="blockquot">Friendship is like a debt of honour; the moment it is talked of, it
+loses its real name and assumes the more ungrateful form of
+obligation.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Goldsmith</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center">Have friends, not for the sake of receiving, but of giving.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Joseph Roux</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[Pg 39]</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="center">Amongst true friends there is no fear of losing anything.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Jeremy Taylor</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center">When men are friends, there is no need of justice; but when they are
+just, they still need friendship.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Aristotle</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="blockquot">Better be a nettle in the side of your friend, than his echo. The
+condition which high friendship demands is ability to do without it.
+To be capable of that high office requires great and sublime parts.
+There must be very two before there can be very one.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Emerson</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">[Pg 40]</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="center">No friendship can excuse a sin.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Jeremy Taylor</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="blockquot">Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man must have
+authority over others, but he can never have their heart but by
+giving his own.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Thomas Wilson</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center">True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in
+adversity they come without invitation.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Theophrastus</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="blockquot">Now can there be a worse disgrace than this&mdash;that I should be
+thought to value money more than the life of a friend?</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Plato</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41">[Pg 41]</a></span></p>
+
+<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table">
+<tr><td>
+Love took up the harp of life, and smote on all the chords with might;<br />
+Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight.</td></tr></table>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Tennyson</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table">
+<tr><td>
+True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd,<br />
+Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.</td></tr></table>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Homer</i></p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/i_deco1.png" alt="" /></div>
+<p class="center"><span class="huge">Service of Friendship</span></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center">The services which cement friendship are reciprocal services.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>William Smith</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42">[Pg 42]</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="center">Friends are to incite one another to God's works.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>William Ellery Channing</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center">I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them
+where I can find them.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Emerson</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="blockquot">A principal fruit of friendship is the use and discharge of the
+fulness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do
+cause and induce.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Bacon</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="blockquot">Most of our friendships lack the distinction of greatness, because
+we are not ready for little acts of service.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Hugh Black</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43">[Pg 43]</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="center">Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them
+tenderly and truly.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>A. Bronson Alcott</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table">
+<tr><td>
+Faithful are the wounds of a friend,<br />
+But the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.<br />
+Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart:<br />
+So doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.<br />
+Iron sharpeneth iron;<br />
+So a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.</td></tr></table>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Proverbs</i> xxvii. 6, 9, 17</p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center">Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Goldsmith</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_44" id="Page_44">[Pg 44]</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="blockquot">To take the advice of some few friends is ever honourable; for
+lookers-on many times see more than gamesters, and the vale best
+discovereth the hill.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Bacon</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table">
+<tr><td>
+Here around the ingle bleezing,<br />
+Wha sae happy and sae free;<br />
+Tho' the northern wind blaws freezing,<br />
+Frien'ship warms baith you and me.</td></tr></table>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Burns</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="blockquot">Friends are the leaders of the bosom, being more ourselves than we
+are, and we complement our affections in theirs.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>A. Bronson Alcott</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_45" id="Page_45">[Pg 45]</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="center">Where you have friends you should not go to inns.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>George Eliot</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table">
+<tr><td>
+More things are wrought by prayer<br />
+Than this world dreams of. Wherefore, let thy voice<br />
+Rise like a fountain for me night and day.<br />
+For what are men better than sheep or goats<br />
+That nourish a blind life within the brain,<br />
+If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer<br />
+Both for themselves and those who call them friend?</td></tr></table>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Tennyson</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46">[Pg 46]</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="center">If I mayn't tell you what I feel, what is the use of a friend?</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Thackeray</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table">
+<tr><td>
+I take of worthy men whate'er they give:<br />
+Their heart I gladly take, if not, their hand;<br />
+If that, too, is withheld, a courteous word,<br />
+Or the civility of placid looks.</td></tr></table>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Joanna Baillie</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="blockquot">Friendship maketh a fair day in the affections, from storm and
+tempest; but it maketh daylight in the understanding, out of
+darkness and confusion of thoughts.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Bacon</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_47" id="Page_47">[Pg 47]</a></span></p>
+
+<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table">
+<tr><td>
+He who will not to friends' advice attend;<br />
+Must not complain when they him reprehend.</td></tr></table>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Saadi</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="blockquot">There is no such flatterer as is a man's self, and there is no such
+remedy against flattery of a man's self as the liberty of a friend.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Bacon</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="blockquot">Let flattery, however, the bond-maid of vices, be far removed from
+friendship, since it is not only unworthy of a friend, but of a free
+man.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Cicero</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_48" id="Page_48">[Pg 48]</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="blockquot">How were friendship possible? In mutual devotedness to the Good and
+True: otherwise impossible, except as armed neutrality or hollow
+commercial league. A man, be the heavens ever praised, is sufficient
+for himself; yet were ten men, united in love, capable of being and
+of doing what ten thousand singly would fail in. Infinite is the
+help man can yield to man.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Carlyle</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="blockquot">A real friend is one who will tell you of your faults and follies in
+prosperity, and assist you with his hand and heart in adversity.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Horace Smith</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_49" id="Page_49">[Pg 49]</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="blockquot">There be three sorts of friends: the first is like a torch we meet
+in a dark street; the second is like a candle in a lanthorn that we
+overtake; the third is like a link that offers itself to the
+stumbling passenger. The met torch is the sweet-lipped friend, which
+lends us a flash of compliment for the time, but quickly leaves us
+to our former darkness. The over-taken lanthorn is the true friend,
+which, though it promise but a faint light, yet it goes along with
+us as far as it can to our journey's end. The offered link is the
+mercenary friend, which though it be ready enough to do us service,
+yet that service hath a servile relation to our bounty.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Quarles</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50">[Pg 50]</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="blockquot">That which is most beneficent is also most excellent; and therefore
+those friendships must needs be most perfect where the friends can
+be most useful.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Jeremy Taylor</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center">I would not live without the love of my friends.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Keats</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="blockquot">Every man has frequent grievances which only the solicitude of
+friendship will discover and remedy, and which would remain forever
+unheeded in the mighty heap of human calamity, were it only surveyed
+by the eye of general benevolence equally attractive to every
+misery.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Samuel Johnson</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_51" id="Page_51">[Pg 51]</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="blockquot">There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friend, but he joyeth
+the more; and no man that imparteth his griefs to his friend, but he
+grieveth the less.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Bacon</i></p>
+<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/i_deco3.png" alt="" /></div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/i_deco2.png" alt="" /></div>
+<p class="center"><span class="huge">Devotion of Friendship</span></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center">Friendship? two bodies and one soul.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Joseph Roux</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="blockquot">It is easy to say how we love <i>new</i> friends, and what we think of
+them, but words can never trace out all the fibres that knit us to
+the <i>old</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>George Eliot</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_52" id="Page_52">[Pg 52]</a></span></p>
+
+<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table">
+<tr><td>
+<span style="margin-left: 2em;">We still have slept together,</span><br />
+Rose at an instant, learn'd, play'd, eat together:<br />
+And wheresoe'er we went like Juno's swans,<br />
+Still we went coupled, and inseparable.</td></tr></table>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Shakespeare</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center">Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles; have no friends
+not equal to yourself.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Confucius</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center">Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes.
+They were easiest for his feet.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>John Selden</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_53" id="Page_53">[Pg 53]</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="blockquot">Men have sometimes exchanged names with their friends, as if they
+would signify that in their friend each loved his own soul.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Emerson</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table">
+<tr><td>
+A generous friendship no cold medium knows,<br />
+Burns with one love, with one resentment glows,<br />
+One should our interests and our passions be,<br />
+My friend must hate the man that injures me.</td></tr></table>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Pope</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center">Keep thy friend under thy own life's key.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Shakespeare</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_54" id="Page_54">[Pg 54]</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="center">Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for
+his friends.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>John</i> xv. 13</p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="blockquot">The friendship of the pure-minded, whether in presence or absence,
+is not such that they will find fault with thee behind thy back, and
+die for thee in thy presence.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Saadi</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table">
+<tr><td>
+"Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship<br />
+Let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest!"</td></tr></table>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Longfellow</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_55" id="Page_55">[Pg 55]</a></span></p>
+
+<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table">
+<tr><td>
+Friendship like love is but a name,<br />
+Unless to one you stint the flame.<br />
+The child, whom many fathers share,<br />
+Hath seldom known a father's care.<br />
+'Tis thus in friendships; who depend<br />
+On many, rarely find a friend.</td></tr></table>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Gay</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table">
+<tr><td>
+There must be many a pair of friends<br />
+Who, arm in arm, deserve the warm<br />
+Moon-births and the long evening-ends.<br />
+So, for their sake, be May still May!</td></tr></table>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Robert Browning</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_56" id="Page_56">[Pg 56]</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="center">When two friends part, they should lock up each other's secrets and
+exchange keys.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Anon</i></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/i_deco3.png" alt="" /></div>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/i_deco1.png" alt="" /></div>
+<p class="center"><span class="huge">Joy of Friendship</span></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table">
+<tr><td>
+Life is to be fortified by many friendships.<br />
+To love, and to be loved, is the greatest happiness of existence.</td></tr></table>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Sydney Smith</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="blockquot">The joy that comes from a true communion of heart with another is
+perhaps one of the purest and greatest in the world.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Hugh Black</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_57" id="Page_57">[Pg 57]</a></span></p>
+
+<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table">
+<tr><td>
+What joy is better than the news of friends<br />
+Whose memories were a solace to me oft,<br />
+As mountain-baths to wild fowls in their flight.</td></tr></table>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Robert Browning</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center">Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>A. Bronson Alcott</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="blockquot">Who is not ready to acknowledge that friendship is the delight of
+youth, the pillar of age, the bloom of prosperity, the charm of
+solitude, the solace of adversity, the best benefactor and comforter
+in this vale of tears?</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Anon</i></p>
+
+
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_58" id="Page_58">[Pg 58]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/i_deco2.png" alt="" /></div>
+<p class="center"><span class="huge">Reasonableness of Friendship</span></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="blockquot">However well proved a friendship may appear, there are confidences
+which it should not hear, and sacrifices which should not be
+required of it.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Joseph Roux</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="blockquot">Costly followers are not to be liked; lest while a man maketh his
+train longer, he maketh his wings shorter.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Bacon</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center">Animals are such agreeable friends&mdash;they ask no questions, they pass
+no criticisms.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>George Eliot</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_59" id="Page_59">[Pg 59]</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="blockquot">Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to
+learn unpleasant truths from his enemies; they are ready enough to
+tell them.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Oliver Wendell Holmes</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="blockquot">A true friend will appear such in leaving us to act according to our
+intimate conviction,&mdash;will cherish this nobleness of sentiment, will
+never wish to substitute his power for our own.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>William Ellery Channing</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="blockquot">The man who prefers his dearest friend to the call of duty will soon
+show that he prefers himself to his dearest friend.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>F. W. Robertson</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_60" id="Page_60">[Pg 60]</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="center">If you could keep your friend, approach him with a telescope, never
+with the microscope.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Anon</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="blockquot">Give not thy friend so much power that if one day he should become a
+foe, thou mayst not be able to resist him.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Saadi</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="blockquot">Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorises you to say
+disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer
+you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and
+courtesy become.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Oliver Wendell Holmes</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_61" id="Page_61">[Pg 61]</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="center">Keep your undrest, familiar style for strangers, but respect your
+friend.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Coventry Patmore</i></p>
+
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/i_deco1.png" alt="" /></div>
+<p class="center"><span class="huge">Profession of Friendship</span></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table">
+<tr><td>
+Let us, then, be what we are, and speak what we think, and in all things<br />
+Keep ourselves loyal to truth, and the sacred professions of friendship.</td></tr></table>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Longfellow</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="blockquot">It is good discretion not to make too much of any man at first,
+because one cannot hold out that proportion.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Bacon</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_62" id="Page_62">[Pg 62]</a></span></p>
+
+<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table">
+<tr><td>
+The man that hails you Tom or Jack,<br />
+And proves by thumps upon your back<br />
+How he esteems your merit,<br />
+Is such a friend that one had need<br />
+Be very much his friend indeed<br />
+To pardon or to bear it.</td></tr></table>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Cowper</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table">
+<tr><td>
+I have not from your eyes that gentleness,<br />
+And show of love, as I was wont to have;<br />
+You bear too stubborn and too strange a hand,<br />
+Over your friend that loves you.</td></tr></table>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Shakespeare</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_63" id="Page_63">[Pg 63]</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="blockquot">When an enemy has tried every expedient in vain, he will pretend
+friendship, and then, by this pretext, execute designs which no
+enemy could have effected.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Saadi</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="blockquot">Worldly friendship is profuse in honeyed words, passionate
+endearments, commendations of beauty, while true friendship speaks a
+simple honest language.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Francis de Sales</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center">Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspected
+as it does religion.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Wycherley</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_64" id="Page_64">[Pg 64]</a></span></p>
+
+<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table">
+<tr><td>
+<span style="margin-left: 9em;">I am weary</span><br />
+Of the bewildering masquerade of Life,<br />
+Where strangers walk as friends and friends as strangers;<br />
+Where whispers overheard betray false hearts;<br />
+And through the mazes of the crowd we chase<br />
+Some form of loveliness, that smiles, and beckons,<br />
+And cheats us with fair words, only to leave us<br />
+A mockery and a jest; maddened, confused,&mdash;<br />
+Not knowing friend from foe.</td></tr></table>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Longfellow</i></p>
+
+
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_65" id="Page_65">[Pg 65]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/i_deco2.png" alt="" /></div>
+<p class="center"><span class="huge">Test of Friendship</span></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center">A friend should be like money&mdash;tried before being required, not
+found faulty in our need.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Plutarch</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center">He is our friend who loves more than admires us, and would aid us in
+our great work.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>William Ellery Channing</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center">Know this, that he that is a friend to himself, is a friend to all
+men.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Seneca</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_66" id="Page_66">[Pg 66]</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="blockquot">A friend is he who sets his heart upon us, is happy with us, and
+delights in us; does for us what we want, is willing and fully
+engaged to do all he can for us, on whom we can rely in all cases.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>William Ellery Channing</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="blockquot">To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling
+than to fill with credit and complacency any other station or
+capacity in social life.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Mrs Ellis</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center">There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself; we
+cannot force it any more than love.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Hazlitt</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_67" id="Page_67">[Pg 67]</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="blockquot">If thou wouldst get a friend, prove him first, and be not hasty to
+credit him. For some man is a friend for his own occasion, and will
+not abide in the day of trouble.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Ecclesiasticus</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="blockquot">When I see leaves drop from their trees in the beginning of autumn,
+just such, think I, is the friendship of the world. Whilst the sap
+of maintenance lasts, my friends swarm in abundance; but in the
+winter of my need they leave me naked. He is a happy man that hath a
+true friend at his need; but he is more truly happy that hath no
+need of his friend.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Warwick</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_68" id="Page_68">[Pg 68]</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="center">As the yellow gold is tried in the fire, so the faith of friendship
+must be seen in adversity.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Ovid</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center">True friendship, like a star, is made brilliant by the dark night.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Anon</i></p>
+<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/i_deco3.png" alt="" /></div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/i_deco1.png" alt="" /></div>
+<p class="center"><span class="huge">Proof of Friendship</span></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="blockquot">That friendship only is genuine when two friends, without speaking a
+word to each other, can, nevertheless, find happiness in being
+together.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>George Ebers</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_69" id="Page_69">[Pg 69]</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="center">Promises may get friends, but it is performance that must nurse and
+keep them.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Owen Felltham</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center">He is a friend who, in dubious circumstances, aids in deeds when
+deeds are necessary.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Plautus</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center">In friendship your heart is like a bell struck every time your
+friend is in trouble.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Henry Ward Beecher</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="blockquot">Let me be alone to the end of the world, rather than that my friend
+should overstep by a word or a look his real sympathy.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Emerson</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_70" id="Page_70">[Pg 70]</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="center">The vital air of friendship is composed of confidence.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Joseph Roux</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="blockquot">Friendship closes its eyes rather than see the moon eclipst; while
+malice denies that it is ever at the full.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>J. C. and A. W. Hare</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center">The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Henry D. Thoreau</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="blockquot">It is a proof of a man's fitness for friendship that he is able to
+do without that which is cheap and passionate. A true friendship is
+as wise as it is tender.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Henry D. Thoreau</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_71" id="Page_71">[Pg 71]</a></span></p>
+
+<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table">
+<tr><td>
+A foe to God was ne'er true friend to man,<br />
+Some sinister intent taints all he does.</td></tr></table>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Young</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="blockquot">The silence of a friend commonly amounts to treachery. His not
+daring to say anything in our behalf implies a tacit censure.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Hazlitt</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table">
+<tr><td>
+Think not thy friend one who in fortune's hour<br />
+Boasts of his friendship and fraternity.<br />
+Him I call friend who sums up all his power<br />
+To aid thee in distress and misery.</td></tr></table>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Saadi</i></p>
+
+
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_72" id="Page_72">[Pg 72]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/i_deco2.png" alt="" /></div>
+<p class="center"><span class="huge">Constancy of Friendship</span></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center">A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Proverbs</i> xvii. 17</p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table">
+<tr><td>
+Oh happy days, oh early friends,<br />
+How Life since then hath lost its flowers!<br />
+But yet&mdash;tho' Time <i>some</i> foliage rends,<br />
+The stem, the Friendship, still is ours;<br />
+And long may it endure, as green<br />
+And fresh as it hath always been!</td></tr></table>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Thomas Moore</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_73" id="Page_73">[Pg 73]</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="center">A true friend is for ever a friend.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>George MacDonald</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="blockquot">Your friend has never really loved you, never quite trusted you, who
+lightly lets himself think that you have drifted away from him.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Bishop Thorold</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center">There are three faithful friends&mdash;an old wife, an old dog, and ready
+money.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Benjamin Franklin</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table">
+<tr><td>
+Should auld acquaintance be forgot,<br />
+And never brought to mind?<br />
+Should auld acquaintance be forgot,<br />
+And days o' lang syne?</td></tr></table>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Burns</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_74" id="Page_74">[Pg 74]</a></span></p>
+
+<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table">
+<tr><td>
+There is no treasure the which may be compared unto a faithful friend;<br />
+Gold soone decayeth, and worldly wealth consumeth and wasteth in the winde:<br />
+But love once planted in a perfect and pure minde endureth weale or woe;<br />
+The frownes of fortune, come they never so unkinde, cannot the same overthrowe.</td></tr></table>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Roxburghe Ballads</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table">
+<tr><td>
+I am not of that feather to shake off<br />
+My friend when he must need me.</td></tr></table>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Shakespeare</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_75" id="Page_75">[Pg 75]</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="center">The faults of our friends ought never to anger us so far as to give
+an advantage to our enemies.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Lord Chesterfield</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table">
+<tr><td>
+Love is and was my Lord and King,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And in his presence I attend</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">To hear the tidings of my friend,</span><br />
+Which every hour his couriers bring.</td></tr></table>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Tennyson</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table">
+<tr><td>
+So Life's year begins and closes;<br />
+Days, though short'ning, still can shine;<br />
+What though youth gave love and roses,<br />
+Age still leaves us friends and wine.</td></tr></table>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Thomas Moore</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_76" id="Page_76">[Pg 76]</a></span></p>
+
+<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table">
+<tr><td>
+"Let all be forgotten between us&mdash;<br />
+All save the dear old friendship, and that shall grow older and dearer.</td></tr></table>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Longfellow</i></p>
+
+
+<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/i_deco3.png" alt="" /></div>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/i_deco1.png" alt="" /></div>
+<p class="center"><span class="huge">Lack of Friends</span></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="blockquot">It is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends, without
+which the world is but a wilderness.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Bacon</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table">
+<tr><td>
+Ill-starred, indeed, is he who injures men:<br />
+Is fortune adverse, he is friendless then.</td></tr></table>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Saadi</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_77" id="Page_77">[Pg 77]</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="blockquot">Those that want friends are cannibals of their own hearts.
+Communicating a man's self to his friends redoubleth his joys and
+cutteth griefs in halves. A friend is another <i>himself</i>. If a man
+have not a friend, he may quit the world's stage!</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Bacon</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center">A favourite has no friend.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Gray</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="blockquot">It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends; the mean and
+cowardly can never know what true friendship means.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Charles Kingsley</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_78" id="Page_78">[Pg 78]</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="blockquot">We walk alone in the world. Friends such as we desire are dreams and
+fables. But a sublime hope cheers ever the faithful heart, that
+elsewhere, in other regions of the universal power, souls are now
+acting, enduring, and daring, which can love us and which we can
+love.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Emerson</i></p>
+
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/i_deco2.png" alt="" /></div>
+
+<p class="center"><span class="huge">Loss of Friendship</span></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table">
+<tr><td>
+Alas! they had been friends in youth;<br />
+But whispering tongues can poison truth;<br />
+And constancy lives in realms above;<br />
+And life is thorny; and youth is vain;<br />
+And to be wroth with one we love<br />
+Doth work like madness in the brain.</td></tr></table>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Coleridge</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_79" id="Page_79">[Pg 79]</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="center">Intimacies which increase vanity destroy friendship.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>William Ellery Channing</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center">Between friends, frequent reproofs make the friendship distant.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Confucius</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="blockquot">Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions, because we have
+made them a texture of wine and dreams, instead of the tough fibre
+of the human heart. The laws of friendship are great, austere, and
+eternal, of one web with the laws of nature and of morals.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Emerson</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_80" id="Page_80">[Pg 80]</a></span></p>
+
+<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table">
+<tr><td>
+Each spoke words of high disdain<br />
+And insult to his heart's best brother:<br />
+They parted&mdash;ne'er to meet again!<br />
+But never either found another<br />
+To free the hollow heart from paining&mdash;<br />
+They stood aloof, the scars remaining,<br />
+Like cliffs which had been rent asunder;<br />
+A dreary sea now flows between.<br />
+But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder,<br />
+Shall wholly do away, I ween,<br />
+The marks of that which once hath been.</td></tr></table>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Coleridge</i></p>
+
+
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_81" id="Page_81">[Pg 81]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/i_deco1.png" alt="" /></div>
+<p class="center"><span class="huge">Loss of Friends</span></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table">
+<tr><td>
+What greetings smile, what farewells wave,<br />
+What loved ones enter and depart!<br />
+The good, the beautiful, the brave,<br />
+The Heaven-lent treasures of the heart!<br />
+How conscious seems the frozen sod<br />
+And beechen slope whereon they trod!<br />
+The oak-leaves rustle, and the dry grass bends<br />
+Beneath the shadowy feet of lost or absent friends.</td></tr></table>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Whittier</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_82" id="Page_82">[Pg 82]</a></span></p>
+
+<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table">
+<tr><td>
+O friend! O best of friends! Thy absence more<br />
+Than the impending night darkens the landscape o'er!</td></tr></table>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Longfellow</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table">
+<tr><td>
+What shall I do, my friend,<br />
+When you are gone forever?<br />
+My heart its eager need will send<br />
+Through the years to find you never,<br />
+And how will it be with you,<br />
+In the weary world I wonder,<br />
+Will you love me with a love as true,<br />
+When our paths be far asunder?</td></tr></table>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Mary Clemmer</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_83" id="Page_83">[Pg 83]</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="center">A man dies as he looses his friends.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Bacon</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="blockquot">We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a
+widower, that man who has lost his wife.... And that man who has
+known the immense unhappiness of losing his friend, by what name do
+we call him?... Here every human language holds its peace in
+impotence.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Joseph Roux</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center">The fallying out of faithful frends is the renuyng of love.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Richard Edwards</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_84" id="Page_84">[Pg 84]</a></span></p>
+
+<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table">
+<tr><td>
+Alas! how light a cause may move<br />
+Dissension between hearts that love!&mdash;<br />
+Hearts, that the world in vain had tried<br />
+And sorrow but more closely tied;<br />
+That stood the storm when waves were rough,<br />
+Yet in a sunny hour fall off:&mdash;<br />
+Like ships that have gone down at sea,<br />
+When heaven is all tranquillity!</td></tr></table>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Thomas Moore</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table">
+<tr><td>
+Waste not the hour of friendship; outside this House of Two Doors<br />
+Friends shall soon part asunder, no more together wending.</td></tr></table>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Hafiz</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_85" id="Page_85">[Pg 85]</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="blockquot">How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! O Jonathan,
+thou wast slain in thine high places. I am distressed for thee, my
+brother Jonathan: Very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to
+me was wonderful, passing the love of women.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright">2 <i>Samuel</i> i. 25, 26</p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table">
+<tr><td>
+Some tears fell down my cheeks and then I smiled,<br />
+As those smile who have no face in the world<br />
+To smile back to them. I had lost a friend.</td></tr></table>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Mrs Browning</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_86" id="Page_86">[Pg 86]</a></span></p>
+
+<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table">
+<tr><td>
+Forgive my grief for one removed,<br />
+Thy creature, whom I found so fair.<br />
+I trust he lives in thee, and there<br />
+I find him worthier to be loved.</td></tr></table>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Tennyson</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table">
+<tr><td>
+<span style="margin-left: 2em;">To wail friends lost</span><br />
+Is not by much so wholesome&mdash;profitable,<br />
+As to rejoice at friends but newly found.</td></tr></table>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Shakespeare</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center">That aching of the breast, the grandest pain that man endures, which
+no other can assuage.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Henry D. Thoreau</i></p>
+
+
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_87" id="Page_87">[Pg 87]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/i_deco2.png" alt="" /></div>
+<p class="center"><span class="huge">Immortality of Friendship</span></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table">
+<tr><td>
+A day for toil, an hour for sport,<br />
+But for a friend is life too short.</td></tr></table>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Emerson</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center">Let us lay hold of Friendship. In the eternal life shall we not have
+friends for evermore?</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Anna R. Brown</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table">
+<tr><td>
+Love is a sudden blaze which soon decays,<br />
+Friendship is like the sun's eternal rays.</td></tr></table>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Gay</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_88" id="Page_88">[Pg 88]</a></span></p>
+
+<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table">
+<tr><td>
+Fast as the rolling seasons bring<br />
+The hour of fate to those we love,<br />
+Each pearl that leaves the broken string<br />
+Is set in friendship's crown above.<br />
+As narrower grows the earthly chain,<br />
+The circle widens in the sky;<br />
+These are our treasures that remain,<br />
+But those are stars that beam on high.</td></tr></table>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>O. W. Holmes</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center">True friendship between man and man is infinite and immortal.</p>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Plato</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_89" id="Page_89">[Pg 89]</a></span></p>
+
+<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table">
+<tr><td>
+Sweet human hand and lips and eye,<br />
+Dear heavenly friend that canst not die;<br />
+Strange friend, past, present and to be;<br />
+Loved deeplier, darklier understood;<br />
+Behold I dream a dream of good,<br />
+And mingle all the world with thee.<br />
+<br />
+Thy voice is on the rolling air;<br />
+I hear thee where the waters run;<br />
+Thou standest in the rising sun,<br />
+And in the setting thou art fair.</td></tr></table>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Tennyson</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_90" id="Page_90">[Pg 90]</a></span></p>
+
+<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table">
+<tr><td>
+Not mine the sad and freezing dream<br />
+Of souls that, with their earthly mould,<br />
+Cast off the loves and joys of old,&mdash;<br />
+
+&nbsp; &nbsp; <strong>&#183;</strong> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <strong>&#183;</strong> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <strong>&#183;</strong> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <strong>&#183;</strong> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <strong>&#183;</strong><br/>
+
+No!&mdash;I have friends in Spirit Land,&mdash;<br />
+Not shadows in a shadowy band,<br />
+Not <i>others</i>, but <i>themselves</i> are they.<br />
+And still I think of them the same<br />
+As when the Master's summons came.</td></tr></table>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Whittier</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_91" id="Page_91">[Pg 91]</a></span></p>
+
+<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table">
+<tr><td>
+The way is short, O friend,<br />
+That reaches out before us;<br />
+God's tender heavens above us bend,<br />
+His love is smiling o'er us;<br />
+A little while is ours<br />
+For sorrow or for laughter;<br />
+I'll lay the hand you love in yours<br />
+On the shore of the Hereafter.</td></tr></table>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Mary Clemmer</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table">
+<tr><td>
+Yet less of sorrow lives in me<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">For days of happy commune dead;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Less yearning for the friendship fled,</span><br />
+Than some strong bond which is to be.</td></tr></table>
+
+<p class="bqright"><i>Tennyson</i></p>
+
+
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_92" id="Page_92">[Pg 92]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/i_deco1.png" alt="" /></div>
+<p class="center"><span class="huge">Index of Authors</span></p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+
+<p>
+<span class="smcap">Addison</span>, <a href="#Page_7">7</a><br />
+<br />
+Alcott, A. B., <a href="#Page_43">43</a>, <a href="#Page_44">44</a>, <a href="#Page_57">57</a><br />
+<br />
+Anon, <a href="#Page_26">26</a>, <a href="#Page_56">56</a>, <a href="#Page_57">57</a>, <a href="#Page_60">60</a>, <a href="#Page_68">68</a><br />
+<br />
+Aristotle, <a href="#Page_39">39</a><br />
+<br />
+Arnot, <a href="#Page_25">25</a><br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Bacon</span>, <a href="#Page_42">42</a>, <a href="#Page_44">44</a>, <a href="#Page_46">46</a>, <a href="#Page_47">47</a>, <a href="#Page_51">51</a>, <a href="#Page_58">58</a>, <a href="#Page_61">61</a>, <a href="#Page_76">76</a>, <a href="#Page_77">77</a>, <a href="#Page_83">83</a><br />
+<br />
+Baillie, Joanna, <a href="#Page_46">46</a><br />
+<br />
+Ballads, Roxburghe, <a href="#Page_74">74</a><br />
+<br />
+Beecher, H. W., <a href="#Page_69">69</a><br />
+<br />
+Birrell, Augustine, <a href="#Page_30">30</a><br />
+<br />
+Black, Hugh, <a href="#Page_9">9</a>, <a href="#Page_13">13</a>, <a href="#Page_18">18</a>, <a href="#Page_38">38</a>, <a href="#Page_42">42</a>, <a href="#Page_56">56</a><br />
+<br />
+Blair, <a href="#Page_31">31</a><br />
+<br />
+Brown, Anna R., <a href="#Page_32">32</a>, <a href="#Page_35">35</a>, <a href="#Page_87">87</a><br />
+<br />
+Browning, Robert, <a href="#Page_9">9</a>, <a href="#Page_11">11</a>, <a href="#Page_27">27</a>, <a href="#Page_55">55</a>, <a href="#Page_57">57</a><br />
+<br />
+Browning, Mrs, <a href="#Page_85">85</a><br />
+<br />
+Bruyère, De la, <a href="#Page_14">14</a><br />
+<br />
+Burns, <a href="#Page_44">44</a>, <a href="#Page_73">73</a><br />
+<br />
+Byron, <a href="#Page_28">28</a><br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Canticles</span>, <a href="#Page_26">26</a><br />
+<br />
+Carlyle, <a href="#Page_48">48</a><br />
+<br />
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_93" id="Page_93">[Pg 93]</a></span>Channing, W. E., <a href="#Page_42">42</a>, <a href="#Page_59">59</a>, <a href="#Page_65">65</a>, <a href="#Page_66">66</a>, <a href="#Page_79">79</a><br />
+<br />
+Chesterfield, Lord, <a href="#Page_75">75</a><br />
+<br />
+Cicero, <a href="#Page_7">7</a>, <a href="#Page_27">27</a>, <a href="#Page_37">37</a>, <a href="#Page_47">47</a><br />
+<br />
+Clemmer, M., <a href="#Page_82">82</a>, <a href="#Page_91">91</a><br />
+<br />
+Coleridge, <a href="#Page_35">35</a>, <a href="#Page_78">78</a>, <a href="#Page_80">80</a><br />
+<br />
+Colton, <a href="#Page_8">8</a>, <a href="#Page_32">32</a><br />
+<br />
+Confucius, <a href="#Page_22">22</a>, <a href="#Page_52">52</a>, <a href="#Page_79">79</a><br />
+<br />
+Cowper, <a href="#Page_62">62</a><br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Drummond</span>, Henry, <a href="#Page_15">15</a><br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Ebers</span>, <a href="#Page_68">68</a><br />
+<br />
+Ecclesiasticus, <a href="#Page_36">36</a>, <a href="#Page_67">67</a><br />
+<br />
+Edwards, R., <a href="#Page_83">83</a><br />
+<br />
+Eliot, George, <a href="#Page_45">45</a>, <a href="#Page_51">51</a>, <a href="#Page_58">58</a><br />
+<br />
+Ellis, Mrs, <a href="#Page_66">66</a><br />
+<br />
+Emerson, <a href="#Page_7">7</a>, <a href="#Page_8">8</a>, <a href="#Page_14">14</a>, <a href="#Page_15">15</a>, <a href="#Page_17">17</a>, <a href="#Page_19">19</a>, <a href="#Page_20">20</a>, <a href="#Page_22">22</a>, <a href="#Page_23">23</a>, <a href="#Page_24">24</a>, <a href="#Page_28">28</a>, <a href="#Page_33">33</a>, <a href="#Page_39">39</a>, <a href="#Page_42">42</a>, <a href="#Page_53">53</a>, <a href="#Page_69">69</a>, <a href="#Page_78">78</a>, <a href="#Page_79">79</a>, <a href="#Page_87">87</a><br />
+<br />
+Euripides, <a href="#Page_34">34</a><br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Felltham</span>, Owen, <a href="#Page_69">69</a><br />
+<br />
+Fénelon, <a href="#Page_30">30</a><br />
+<br />
+Fielding, <a href="#Page_21">21</a><br />
+<br />
+Franklin, B., <a href="#Page_73">73</a><br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Gay</span>, <a href="#Page_24">24</a>, <a href="#Page_55">55</a>, <a href="#Page_87">87</a><br />
+<br />
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_94" id="Page_94">[Pg 94]</a></span>Goldsmith, <a href="#Page_38">38</a>, <a href="#Page_43">43</a><br />
+<br />
+Gray, <a href="#Page_77">77</a><br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Hafiz</span>, <a href="#Page_12">12</a>, <a href="#Page_84">84</a><br />
+<br />
+Hare, J. C. and A. W., <a href="#Page_70">70</a><br />
+<br />
+Hazlitt, <a href="#Page_66">66</a>, <a href="#Page_71">71</a><br />
+<br />
+Holmes, O. W., <a href="#Page_18">18</a>, <a href="#Page_59">59</a>, <a href="#Page_60">60</a>, <a href="#Page_88">88</a><br />
+<br />
+Homer, <a href="#Page_41">41</a><br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Jerrold</span>, Douglas, <a href="#Page_13">13</a><br />
+<br />
+John, St, <a href="#Page_25">25</a>, <a href="#Page_54">54</a><br />
+<br />
+Johnson, Samuel, <a href="#Page_13">13</a>, <a href="#Page_50">50</a><br />
+<br />
+Jonson, Ben, <a href="#Page_30">30</a><br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Keats</span>, <a href="#Page_50">50</a><br />
+<br />
+Kingsley, C., <a href="#Page_77">77</a><br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Longfellow</span>, <a href="#Page_15">15</a>, <a href="#Page_29">29</a>, <a href="#Page_33">33</a>, <a href="#Page_36">36</a>, <a href="#Page_54">54</a>, <a href="#Page_61">61</a>, <a href="#Page_64">64</a>, <a href="#Page_76">76</a>, <a href="#Page_82">82</a><br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">MacDonald</span>, George, <a href="#Page_73">73</a><br />
+<br />
+Montaigne, <a href="#Page_37">37</a><br />
+<br />
+Moore, Thomas, <a href="#Page_31">31</a>, <a href="#Page_72">72</a>, <a href="#Page_75">75</a>, <a href="#Page_84">84</a><br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Ovid</span>, <a href="#Page_68">68</a><br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Patmore</span>, Coventry, <a href="#Page_61">61</a><br />
+<br />
+Persian, From the, <a href="#Page_19">19</a><br />
+<br />
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_95" id="Page_95">[Pg 95]</a></span>Philips, Catherine, <a href="#Page_12">12</a>, <a href="#Page_20">20</a><br />
+<br />
+Plato, <a href="#Page_40">40</a>, <a href="#Page_88">88</a><br />
+<br />
+Plautus, <a href="#Page_69">69</a><br />
+<br />
+Plutarch, <a href="#Page_25">25</a>, <a href="#Page_65">65</a><br />
+<br />
+Pope, <a href="#Page_53">53</a><br />
+<br />
+Proverb, German, <a href="#Page_35">35</a><br />
+<br />
+Proverb, Oriental, <a href="#Page_33">33</a><br />
+<br />
+Proverbs, The, <a href="#Page_11">11</a>, <a href="#Page_26">26</a>, <a href="#Page_43">43</a>, <a href="#Page_72">72</a><br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Quarles</span>, <a href="#Page_49">49</a><br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Robertson</span>, F. W., <a href="#Page_59">59</a><br />
+<br />
+Roux, Joseph, <a href="#Page_27">27</a>, <a href="#Page_38">38</a>, <a href="#Page_51">51</a>, <a href="#Page_58">58</a>, <a href="#Page_70">70</a>, <a href="#Page_83">83</a><br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Saadi</span>, <a href="#Page_10">10</a>, <a href="#Page_25">25</a>, <a href="#Page_47">47</a>, <a href="#Page_54">54</a>, <a href="#Page_60">60</a>, <a href="#Page_63">63</a>, <a href="#Page_71">71</a>, <a href="#Page_76">76</a><br />
+<br />
+Sales, Francis de, <a href="#Page_63">63</a><br />
+<br />
+Samuel (Book of), <a href="#Page_85">85</a><br />
+<br />
+Schiller, <a href="#Page_35">35</a><br />
+<br />
+Scuderi, Mlle. de, <a href="#Page_17">17</a><br />
+<br />
+Selden, <a href="#Page_52">52</a><br />
+<br />
+Seneca, <a href="#Page_31">31</a>, <a href="#Page_65">65</a><br />
+<br />
+Shakespeare, <a href="#Page_23">23</a>, <a href="#Page_30">30</a>, <a href="#Page_36">36</a>, <a href="#Page_52">52</a>, <a href="#Page_53">53</a>, <a href="#Page_62">62</a>, <a href="#Page_74">74</a>, <a href="#Page_86">86</a><br />
+<br />
+Smith, Horace, <a href="#Page_48">48</a><br />
+<br />
+Smith, Sydney, <a href="#Page_56">56</a><br />
+<br />
+Smith, William, <a href="#Page_41">41</a><br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_96" id="Page_96">[Pg 96]</a></span><span class="smcap">Taylor</span>, Jeremy, <a href="#Page_8">8</a>, <a href="#Page_24">24</a>, <a href="#Page_32">32</a>, <a href="#Page_39">39</a>, <a href="#Page_40">40</a>, <a href="#Page_50">50</a><br />
+<br />
+Tennyson, <a href="#Page_16">16</a>, <a href="#Page_24">24</a>, <a href="#Page_41">41</a>, <a href="#Page_45">45</a>, <a href="#Page_75">75</a>, <a href="#Page_86">86</a>, <a href="#Page_89">89</a>, <a href="#Page_91">91</a><br />
+<br />
+Thackeray, <a href="#Page_9">9</a>, <a href="#Page_46">46</a><br />
+<br />
+Theophrastus, <a href="#Page_40">40</a><br />
+<br />
+Thoreau, Henry D., <a href="#Page_28">28</a>, <a href="#Page_70">70</a>, <a href="#Page_86">86</a><br />
+<br />
+Thorold, Bishop, <a href="#Page_34">34</a>, <a href="#Page_73">73</a><br />
+<br />
+Throckmorton, Allan, <a href="#Page_10">10</a><br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Voltaire</span>, <a href="#Page_16">16</a><br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Warwick</span>, <a href="#Page_67">67</a><br />
+<br />
+Washington, George, <a href="#Page_37">37</a><br />
+<br />
+Whittier, <a href="#Page_81">81</a>, <a href="#Page_90">90</a><br />
+<br />
+Wilson, Thomas, <a href="#Page_40">40</a><br />
+<br />
+Wycherley, <a href="#Page_63">63</a><br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Young</span>, <a href="#Page_21">21</a>, <a href="#Page_71">71</a><br />
+</p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+
+<p class="center"><span class="big">HERE ENDS NUMBER TWELVE OF SESAME BOOKLETS</span></p>
+
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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Golden Link of Friendship, by Various
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+Title: The Golden Link of Friendship
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+Author: Various
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+  SESAME BOOKLETS
+
+
+  _LATEST ADDITIONS TO
+  SESAME BOOKLETS_
+
+  41. Rab and his Friends. _Brown._
+  42. Marjorie Fleming. _Brown._
+  43. Poems of the East.
+  44. Gems from Balzac.
+  45. Thoughts from Tolstoi.
+  46. Thoughts from Jerome K. Jerome.
+  47. Thoughts from H. G. Wells.
+  48. Thoughts from E. F. Benson.
+  49. Thoughts from Augustine Birrell.
+  50. Thoughts from G. K. Chesterton.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
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+
+
+  SESAME BOOKLETS
+
+
+  The
+  Golden Link of
+  Friendship
+
+
+  George G. Harrap & Co.
+  3 Portsmouth St. London
+
+
+    "_A link to bind when circumstances part;
+    A nerve of feeling stretched from heart to heart._"
+
+  The Riverside Press Ltd., Edinburgh
+
+
+
+
+Foreword
+
+
+_Friendship is one of the most important things in the world. As a
+factor in educating the mind, forming the character, guiding the will,
+and shaping the destiny, the influence of Friendship can scarcely be
+overrated. Friendship has made a man a hero, a saint, a demon!_
+
+_It is to be hoped, therefore, that these Golden Thoughts on
+Friendship--garnered from a wide field--will prove helpful and inspiring
+and tend to create pure and noble ideals in the minds of readers._
+
+_The touching story of David and Jonathan continues to possess a
+surpassing charm for humanity; and the voyager over Life's ocean who
+discovers a true friend discovers an island offering a safe, quiet haven
+from every storm that blows, and which presents innumerable luscious
+fruits and sweet-scented flowers for his refreshment and enjoyment._
+
+                                                              _A. E. S._
+
+
+
+
+Birth of Friendship
+
+
+  Nature loves nothing solitary, and always reaches out to something
+  as a support, which ever in the sweetest friend is most delightful.
+
+                                                             _Cicero_
+
+
+
+  Great souls by instinct to each other turn,
+  Demand alliance, and in friendship burn.
+
+                                    _Addison_
+
+
+  The only way to have a friend, is to be one.
+
+                                     _Emerson_
+
+
+  Some friendships are made by _nature_, some by _contract_, some by
+  _interest_, and some by _souls_.
+                                                     _Jeremy Taylor_
+
+
+  The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as
+  iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.
+                                                          _Colton_
+
+
+  Only that soul can be my friend which I encounter on the line of my
+  own march, that soul to which I do not decline and which does not
+  decline to me, but, native of the same celestial latitude, repeats
+  in its own all my experience.
+                                                            _Emerson_
+
+
+
+
+Culture of Friendship
+
+
+  It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
+
+                                         _Thackeray_
+
+
+  We have few friendships, because we are not willing to pay the price
+  of friendship.
+                                                          _Hugh Black_
+
+
+                    Hand
+  Grasps hand, eye lights eye in good friendship,
+  And great hearts expand,
+  And grow one in the sense of this world's life.
+
+                                _Robert Browning_
+
+
+  A friend whom you have been gaining during your whole life, you
+  ought not to be displeased with in a moment. A stone is many years
+  becoming a ruby; take care that you do not destroy it in an instant
+  against another stone.
+                                                              _Saadi_
+
+
+  Once let friendship be given that is born of God, nor time nor
+  circumstance can change it to a lessening; it must be mutual growth,
+  increasing trust, widening faith, enduring patience, forgiving love,
+  unselfish ambition--an affection built before the Throne, that will
+  bear the test of time and trial.
+                                                  _Allan Throckmorton_
+
+
+  A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a
+  friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
+                                                _Proverbs_ xviii. 24
+
+
+              You'll never hope
+  To be such friends, for instance she and you,
+  As when you hunted cowslips in the woods
+  Or played together in the meadow hay.
+  Oh yes--with age, respect comes, and your worth
+  Is felt, there's growing sympathy of tastes,
+  There's ripened friendship, there's confirmed esteem.
+
+                                      _Robert Browning_
+
+
+  Plant thou the tree of friendship only; so shall thy heart's desire
+    bear fruit:
+  Uproot thou hatred's plant completely, or woes unnumbered thence may
+    shoot.
+                                                               _Hafiz_
+
+
+
+
+Sacredness of Friendship
+
+
+  Friendship's an abstract of this noble flame,
+    'Tis love refin'd, and purged from all its dross,
+  'Tis next to angels' love, if not the same,
+    As strong in passion is, though not so gross.
+
+                                  _Catherine Philips_
+
+
+  Golden friendship is not a common thing to be picked up in the
+  street.... There are pearls of the heart, which cannot be thrown to
+  swine.
+                                                         _Hugh Black_
+
+
+  Friendship, peculiar boon of Heaven,
+    The noble mind's delight and pride,
+  To men and angels only given,
+    To all the lower world denied.
+
+                        _Samuel Johnson_
+
+
+  O Friendship! thou divinest alchemist, that man should ever profane
+  thee!
+                                                    _Douglas Jerrold_
+
+
+  Pure friendship is something which men of inferior intellect can
+  never taste.
+                                                   _De la Bruyere_
+
+
+  The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and
+  trust. It must not surmise or provide for infirmity. It treats its
+  object as a god that it may deify both.
+                                                           _Emerson_
+
+
+  For perfect friendship it may be said to require natures so rare and
+  costly, so well tempered each, and so happily adapted, and withal so
+  circumstanced that very seldom can its satisfaction be realised.
+
+                                                             _Emerson_
+
+
+  Love shows me the opulence of nature, by disclosing to me in my
+  friend a hidden wealth, and I infer an equal depth of good in every
+  other direction.
+                                                            _Emerson_
+
+
+  Who talks of a _common_ friendship? There is no such thing in the
+  world. On earth no word is more sublime. Friendship is the nearest
+  thing we know to what religion is. God is love.
+                                                    _Henry Drummond_
+
+
+  "You will forgive me, I hope, for the sake of the friendship
+    between us,
+  Which is too true and too sacred to be so easily broken!"
+
+                                                  _Longfellow_
+
+
+          He that wrongs his friend
+  Wrongs himself more, and ever bears about
+  A silent court of justice in his breast,
+  Himself the judge and jury, and himself
+  The prisoner at the bar, ever condemn'd:
+  And that drags down his life.
+
+                                 _Tennyson_
+
+
+  Friendship is the marriage of the soul.
+
+                               _Voltaire_
+
+
+
+
+Beauty of Friendship
+
+
+  A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
+
+                                                 _Emerson_
+
+
+  The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed:
+  there is no winter, and no night: all tragedies, all ennuis vanish;
+  all duties even; nothing fills the preceding eternity but the forms
+  all radiant of beloved persons.
+                                                            _Emerson_
+
+
+  The only rose without thorns is friendship.
+
+                            _Mlle. de Scuderi_
+
+
+  To the young friendship comes as the glory of spring, a very miracle
+  of beauty, a mystery of birth: to the old it has the bloom of
+  autumn, beautiful still, but with the beauty of decay.
+                                                          _Hugh Black_
+
+
+  The pledge of Friendship! it is still divine,
+  Though watery floods have quenched its burning wine;
+  Whatever vase the sacred drops may hold,
+  The gourd, the shell, the cup of beaten gold,
+  Around its brim the bond of Nature throws
+  A garland sweeter than the banquet's rose.
+
+                                        _O. W. Holmes_
+
+
+  O friend, my bosom said,
+  Through thee alone the sky is arched,
+  Through thee the rose is red;
+  All things through thee take nobler form,
+  And look beyond the earth,
+  The mill-round of our fate appears
+  A sun-path in thy worth.
+  Me too thy nobleness has taught
+  To master my despair;
+  The fountains of my hidden life
+  Are through thy friendship fair.
+
+                                  _Emerson_
+
+
+  Friend is a word of royal tone;
+  Friend is a poem all alone.
+
+               _From the Persian_
+
+
+  Happy is the house that shelters a friend! It might well be built
+  like a festal bower or arch, to entertain him a single day.
+
+                                                          _Emerson_
+
+
+  Thick waters show no images of things;
+  Friends are each other's mirrors, and should be
+  Clearer than crystal, or the mountain-springs,
+  And free from clouds, design, or flattery.
+  For vulgar souls no part of friendship share;
+  Poets and friends are born to what they are.
+
+                              _Catherine Philips_
+
+
+
+
+Choice of Friendship
+
+
+  First on thy friend deliberate with thyself,
+  Pause, ponder, sift; not eager in the choice,
+  Nor jealous of the chosen: fixing, fix;--
+  Judge before friendship, then confide till death.
+
+                                            _Young_
+
+
+  The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
+
+                                                           _Fielding_
+
+
+  Friendship demands a religious treatment. We must not be wilful, we
+  must not provide. We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are
+  self-elected. Reverence is a great part of it.
+                                                            _Emerson_
+
+
+  Friendship with the upright; friendship with the sincere; and
+  friendship with the man of much observation: these are advantageous.
+  Friendship with the man of specious airs; friendship with the
+  insinuatingly soft; and friendship with the glib-tongued: these are
+  injurious.
+                                                           _Confucius_
+
+
+  Oh, be my friend, and teach me to be thine!
+
+                                    _Emerson_
+
+
+  My friends have come to me unsought; the great God gave them to me.
+
+                                                            _Emerson_
+
+
+  The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
+  Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
+  But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
+  Of each new-hatch'd, unfledged comrade.
+
+                                     _Shakespeare_
+
+
+  He makes no friend who never made a foe.
+
+                                _Tennyson_
+
+
+  Who friendship with a knave hath made
+  Is judg'd a partner in the trade.
+
+                                  _Gay_
+
+
+  A man's friends are his magnetisms.
+
+                             _Emerson_
+
+
+  A good man is the best friend, and therefore soonest to be chosen,
+  longer to be retained, and, indeed, never to be parted with, unless
+  he cease to be that for which he was chosen.
+
+                                                      _Jeremy Taylor_
+
+
+  Friendship sealed by companionship in sin will not last long.
+
+                                                        _Arnot_
+
+
+  Eschew that friend, if thou art wise,
+  Who consorts with thy enemies.
+                                _Saadi_
+
+
+  Friendship requires a steady, constant, and unchangeable character,
+  a person that is uniform in his intimacy.
+                                                           _Plutarch_
+
+
+
+
+Divine Friendship
+
+
+  Ye are My friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.
+
+                                          _John_ xv. 14
+
+
+  His mouth is most sweet: yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my
+  beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.
+
+                                                  _Canticles_ v. 16
+
+
+  He that loveth pureness of heart, for the grace of his lips the King
+  shall be his friend.
+
+                                                   _Proverbs_ xxii. 11
+
+
+  It is said that when he came to die, the last words of the American
+  President Edwards, after bidding his weeping relatives good-bye,
+  were: "Now where is Jesus of Nazareth, my true and never-failing
+  Friend?" So saying he fell asleep.
+                                                               _Anon_
+
+
+
+
+Reality of Friendship
+
+
+  Friendship is the ideal, friends are the reality; reality always
+  remains far apart from the ideal.
+                                                     _Joseph Roux_
+
+
+  They seem to take away the sun from the world who withdraw
+  friendship from life.
+
+                                                    _Cicero_
+
+
+            You're my friend--
+  What a thing friendship is, world without end!
+  How it gives the heart and soul a stir up!
+
+                               _Robert Browning_
+
+
+  Friendship is Love without his wings!
+
+                                _Byron_
+
+
+  I do not wish to treat friendships daintily, but with roughest
+  courage. When they are real, they are not glass threads or
+  frostwork, but the solidest thing we know.
+
+                                                       _Emerson_
+
+
+  Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a
+  distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
+
+                                                _Henry D. Thoreau_
+
+
+  O, weary hearts! O, slumbering eyes!
+  O, drooping souls, whose destinies
+  Are fraught with fear and pain,
+  Ye shall be loved again!
+
+  No one is so accursed by fate,
+  No one so utterly desolate,
+  But some heart, though unknown,
+  Responds unto his own.
+
+  Responds,--as if with unseen wings,
+  An angel touched its quivering strings;
+  And whispers, in its song,
+  Where hast thou stayed so long?
+
+                             _Longfellow_
+
+
+  Friendship is a word the very sight of which in print makes the
+  heart warm.
+                                              _Augustine Birrell_
+
+
+  Real friends are our greatest joy and our greatest sorrow.
+
+                                                   _Fenelon_
+
+
+  Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.
+
+                                 _Shakespeare_
+
+
+
+
+Worth of Friendship
+
+
+  True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the
+  worth and choice.
+                                                         _Ben Jonson_
+
+
+  Friendship, mysterious cement of the soul,
+  Sweetener of life, and solder of society,
+  I owe thee much: thou hast deserv'd from me
+  Far, far beyond what I can ever pay.
+
+                                      _Blair_
+
+
+  Not all the works of Science, Art,
+  Or Genius in this world are worth
+  One genuine sigh that from the heart
+  Friendship or Love draws freshly forth.
+
+                           _Thomas Moore_
+
+
+  Friendship always benefits, while love sometimes injures.
+
+                                                   _Seneca_
+
+
+  To have a friend is to have one of the sweetest gifts that life can
+  bring: to be a friend is to have a solemn and tender education of
+  soul from day to day.
+                                                      _Anna R. Brown_
+
+
+  Friendship is an allay of our sorrows, the ease of our passions, the
+  discharge of our oppressions, the sanctuary to our calamities, the
+  counsellor of our doubts, the clarity of our minds, the emission of
+  our thoughts, the exercise and improvement of what we meditate.
+
+                                                       _Jeremy Taylor_
+
+
+  True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom
+  known until it be lost.
+                                                         _Colton_
+
+
+  Friendship is an order of nobility; from its revelations we come
+  more worthily into nature.
+                                                         _Emerson_
+
+
+  Ah, how good it feels! the hand of an old friend.
+
+                                       _Longfellow_
+
+
+  He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
+  But he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
+
+                                        _Oriental Proverb_
+
+
+  Nor scour the seas, nor sift mankind,
+  A poet or a friend to find;
+  Behold, he watches at the door,
+  Behold his shadow on the floor.
+
+                              _Emerson_
+
+
+  A friend who will not despise us for our weakness, nor disown us for
+  our sinfulness, nor tire of us for being troublesome, nor scoff at
+  us for our sensibility, but who will patiently hear our tale, fully
+  understand our regret, tenderly recognise our stumbling-blocks, and
+  be honest enough to tell us the truth, cost us what it may--oh, do
+  you not see what a real help he might be to us.
+                                                      _Bishop Thorold_
+
+
+                        A friend
+  Welded into our life is more to us
+  Than twice five thousand kinsmen, one in blood.
+
+                                      _Euripides_
+
+
+  I used to think that friendship meant happiness: I have learnt that
+  it means discipline.
+                                                      _Anna R. Brown_
+
+
+  Dear is my friend--yet from my foe, as from my friend comes good:
+  My friend shows what I can do, and my foe what I should.
+
+                                                         _Schiller_
+
+
+  We can live without a brother, but not without a friend.
+
+                                          _German Proverb_
+
+
+  Love is flower-like;
+  Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
+
+                            _Coleridge_
+
+
+  You shall perceive how you mistake my fortunes; I am wealthy in my
+  friends.
+                                                       _Shakespeare_
+
+
+  A faithful friend is the medicine of life.
+
+                            _Ecclesiasticus_
+
+
+  "I know and esteem you, and feel that your nature is noble,
+  Lifting mine up to a higher, a more ethereal level,
+  Therefore I value your friendship."
+
+                                                 _Longfellow_
+
+
+
+
+Disinterestedness of Friendship
+
+
+  In friendship, there is no commerce or business depending on the
+  same, but itself.
+                                                       _Montaigne_
+
+
+  You must therefore love me, myself, and not my circumstances, if we
+  are to be real friends.
+                                                             _Cicero_
+
+
+  I can never think of promoting my convenience at the expense of a
+  friend's interest and inclination.
+                                                _George Washington_
+
+
+  There is possible to-day, as ever, a generous friendship which
+  forgets self.... The miracle of friendship has been too often
+  enacted on this dull earth of ours to suffer us to doubt either its
+  possibility or its wondrous beauty.
+                                                         _Hugh Black_
+
+
+  Friendship is like a debt of honour; the moment it is talked of, it
+  loses its real name and assumes the more ungrateful form of
+  obligation.
+                                                          _Goldsmith_
+
+
+  Have friends, not for the sake of receiving, but of giving.
+
+                                                _Joseph Roux_
+
+
+  Amongst true friends there is no fear of losing anything.
+
+                                            _Jeremy Taylor_
+
+
+  When men are friends, there is no need of justice; but when they are
+  just, they still need friendship.
+                                                           _Aristotle_
+
+
+  Better be a nettle in the side of your friend, than his echo. The
+  condition which high friendship demands is ability to do without it.
+  To be capable of that high office requires great and sublime parts.
+  There must be very two before there can be very one.
+                                                             _Emerson_
+
+
+  No friendship can excuse a sin.
+
+                  _Jeremy Taylor_
+
+
+  Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man must have
+  authority over others, but he can never have their heart but by
+  giving his own.
+                                                    _Thomas Wilson_
+
+
+  True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in
+  adversity they come without invitation.
+                                                 _Theophrastus_
+
+
+  Now can there be a worse disgrace than this--that I should be
+  thought to value money more than the life of a friend?
+
+                                                        _Plato_
+
+
+  Love took up the harp of life, and smote on all the chords with might;
+  Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, passed in music out of
+    sight.
+                                                              _Tennyson_
+
+
+  True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd,
+  Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
+
+                                             _Homer_
+
+
+
+
+Service of Friendship
+
+
+  The services which cement friendship are reciprocal services.
+
+                                                _William Smith_
+
+
+  Friends are to incite one another to God's works.
+
+                          _William Ellery Channing_
+
+
+  I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them
+  where I can find them.
+                                                           _Emerson_
+
+
+  A principal fruit of friendship is the use and discharge of the
+  fulness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do
+  cause and induce.
+                                                             _Bacon_
+
+
+  Most of our friendships lack the distinction of greatness, because
+  we are not ready for little acts of service.
+                                                        _Hugh Black_
+
+
+  Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them
+  tenderly and truly.
+                                                   _A. Bronson Alcott_
+
+
+  Faithful are the wounds of a friend,
+  But the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
+  Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart:
+  So doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.
+  Iron sharpeneth iron;
+  So a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
+
+                                  _Proverbs_ xxvii. 6, 9, 17
+
+
+  Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals.
+
+                                             _Goldsmith_
+
+
+  To take the advice of some few friends is ever honourable; for
+  lookers-on many times see more than gamesters, and the vale best
+  discovereth the hill.
+                                                           _Bacon_
+
+
+  Here around the ingle bleezing,
+  Wha sae happy and sae free;
+  Tho' the northern wind blaws freezing,
+  Frien'ship warms baith you and me.
+
+                                 _Burns_
+
+
+  Friends are the leaders of the bosom, being more ourselves than we
+  are, and we complement our affections in theirs.
+                                                 _A. Bronson Alcott_
+
+
+  Where you have friends you should not go to inns.
+
+                                     _George Eliot_
+
+
+  More things are wrought by prayer
+  Than this world dreams of. Wherefore, let thy voice
+  Rise like a fountain for me night and day.
+  For what are men better than sheep or goats
+  That nourish a blind life within the brain,
+  If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer
+  Both for themselves and those who call them friend?
+
+                                           _Tennyson_
+
+
+  If I mayn't tell you what I feel, what is the use of a friend?
+
+                                                     _Thackeray_
+
+
+  I take of worthy men whate'er they give:
+  Their heart I gladly take, if not, their hand;
+  If that, too, is withheld, a courteous word,
+  Or the civility of placid looks.
+
+                                _Joanna Baillie_
+
+
+  Friendship maketh a fair day in the affections, from storm and
+  tempest; but it maketh daylight in the understanding, out of
+  darkness and confusion of thoughts.
+                                                         _Bacon_
+
+
+  He who will not to friends' advice attend;
+  Must not complain when they him reprehend.
+
+                                     _Saadi_
+
+
+  There is no such flatterer as is a man's self, and there is no such
+  remedy against flattery of a man's self as the liberty of a friend.
+
+                                                              _Bacon_
+
+
+  Let flattery, however, the bond-maid of vices, be far removed from
+  friendship, since it is not only unworthy of a friend, but of a free
+  man.
+                                                              _Cicero_
+
+
+  How were friendship possible? In mutual devotedness to the Good and
+  True: otherwise impossible, except as armed neutrality or hollow
+  commercial league. A man, be the heavens ever praised, is sufficient
+  for himself; yet were ten men, united in love, capable of being and
+  of doing what ten thousand singly would fail in. Infinite is the
+  help man can yield to man.
+                                                             _Carlyle_
+
+
+  A real friend is one who will tell you of your faults and follies in
+  prosperity, and assist you with his hand and heart in adversity.
+
+                                                        _Horace Smith_
+
+
+  There be three sorts of friends: the first is like a torch we meet
+  in a dark street; the second is like a candle in a lanthorn that we
+  overtake; the third is like a link that offers itself to the
+  stumbling passenger. The met torch is the sweet-lipped friend, which
+  lends us a flash of compliment for the time, but quickly leaves us
+  to our former darkness. The over-taken lanthorn is the true friend,
+  which, though it promise but a faint light, yet it goes along with
+  us as far as it can to our journey's end. The offered link is the
+  mercenary friend, which though it be ready enough to do us service,
+  yet that service hath a servile relation to our bounty.
+                                                             _Quarles_
+
+
+  That which is most beneficent is also most excellent; and therefore
+  those friendships must needs be most perfect where the friends can
+  be most useful.
+                                                      _Jeremy Taylor_
+
+
+  I would not live without the love of my friends.
+
+                                           _Keats_
+
+
+  Every man has frequent grievances which only the solicitude of
+  friendship will discover and remedy, and which would remain forever
+  unheeded in the mighty heap of human calamity, were it only surveyed
+  by the eye of general benevolence equally attractive to every
+  misery.
+                                                      _Samuel Johnson_
+
+
+  There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friend, but he joyeth
+  the more; and no man that imparteth his griefs to his friend, but he
+  grieveth the less.
+                                                               _Bacon_
+
+
+
+
+Devotion of Friendship
+
+
+  Friendship? two bodies and one soul.
+
+                         _Joseph Roux_
+
+
+  It is easy to say how we love _new_ friends, and what we think of
+  them, but words can never trace out all the fibres that knit us to
+  the _old_.
+                                                      _George Eliot_
+
+
+      We still have slept together,
+  Rose at an instant, learn'd, play'd, eat together:
+  And wheresoe'er we went like Juno's swans,
+  Still we went coupled, and inseparable.
+
+                                       _Shakespeare_
+
+
+  Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles; have no friends
+  not equal to yourself.
+                                                           _Confucius_
+
+
+  Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes.
+  They were easiest for his feet.
+                                                     _John Selden_
+
+
+  Men have sometimes exchanged names with their friends, as if they
+  would signify that in their friend each loved his own soul.
+
+                                                          _Emerson_
+
+
+  A generous friendship no cold medium knows,
+  Burns with one love, with one resentment glows,
+  One should our interests and our passions be,
+  My friend must hate the man that injures me.
+
+                                           _Pope_
+
+
+  Keep thy friend under thy own life's key.
+
+                              _Shakespeare_
+
+
+  Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for
+  his friends.
+                                                         _John_ xv. 13
+
+
+  The friendship of the pure-minded, whether in presence or absence,
+  is not such that they will find fault with thee behind thy back, and
+  die for thee in thy presence.
+                                                               _Saadi_
+
+
+  "Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship
+  Let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest!"
+
+                                                        _Longfellow_
+
+
+  Friendship like love is but a name,
+  Unless to one you stint the flame.
+  The child, whom many fathers share,
+  Hath seldom known a father's care.
+  'Tis thus in friendships; who depend
+  On many, rarely find a friend.
+
+                                 _Gay_
+
+
+  There must be many a pair of friends
+  Who, arm in arm, deserve the warm
+  Moon-births and the long evening-ends.
+  So, for their sake, be May still May!
+
+                       _Robert Browning_
+
+
+  When two friends part, they should lock up each other's secrets and
+  exchange keys.
+                                                               _Anon_
+
+
+
+
+Joy of Friendship
+
+
+  Life is to be fortified by many friendships.
+  To love, and to be loved, is the greatest happiness of existence.
+
+                                                     _Sydney Smith_
+
+
+  The joy that comes from a true communion of heart with another is
+  perhaps one of the purest and greatest in the world.
+                                                       _Hugh Black_
+
+
+  What joy is better than the news of friends
+  Whose memories were a solace to me oft,
+  As mountain-baths to wild fowls in their flight.
+
+                                 _Robert Browning_
+
+
+  Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.
+
+                                _A. Bronson Alcott_
+
+
+  Who is not ready to acknowledge that friendship is the delight of
+  youth, the pillar of age, the bloom of prosperity, the charm of
+  solitude, the solace of adversity, the best benefactor and comforter
+  in this vale of tears?
+                                                                _Anon_
+
+
+
+
+Reasonableness of Friendship
+
+
+  However well proved a friendship may appear, there are confidences
+  which it should not hear, and sacrifices which should not be
+  required of it.
+                                                       _Joseph Roux_
+
+
+  Costly followers are not to be liked; lest while a man maketh his
+  train longer, he maketh his wings shorter.
+                                                            _Bacon_
+
+
+  Animals are such agreeable friends--they ask no questions, they pass
+  no criticisms.
+                                                        _George Eliot_
+
+
+  Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to
+  learn unpleasant truths from his enemies; they are ready enough to
+  tell them.
+                                             _Oliver Wendell Holmes_
+
+
+  A true friend will appear such in leaving us to act according to our
+  intimate conviction,--will cherish this nobleness of sentiment, will
+  never wish to substitute his power for our own.
+
+                                             _William Ellery Channing_
+
+
+  The man who prefers his dearest friend to the call of duty will soon
+  show that he prefers himself to his dearest friend.
+                                                     _F. W. Robertson_
+
+
+  If you could keep your friend, approach him with a telescope, never
+  with the microscope.
+                                                               _Anon_
+
+
+  Give not thy friend so much power that if one day he should become a
+  foe, thou mayst not be able to resist him.
+                                                               _Saadi_
+
+
+  Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorises you to say
+  disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer
+  you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and
+  courtesy become.
+                                               _Oliver Wendell Holmes_
+
+
+  Keep your undrest, familiar style for strangers, but respect your
+  friend.
+                                                 _Coventry Patmore_
+
+
+
+
+Profession of Friendship
+
+
+  Let us, then, be what we are, and speak what we think, and in all
+    things
+  Keep ourselves loyal to truth, and the sacred professions of
+    friendship.
+                                                       _Longfellow_
+
+
+  It is good discretion not to make too much of any man at first,
+  because one cannot hold out that proportion.
+                                                          _Bacon_
+
+
+  The man that hails you Tom or Jack,
+  And proves by thumps upon your back
+  How he esteems your merit,
+  Is such a friend that one had need
+  Be very much his friend indeed
+  To pardon or to bear it.
+
+                             _Cowper_
+
+
+  I have not from your eyes that gentleness,
+  And show of love, as I was wont to have;
+  You bear too stubborn and too strange a hand,
+  Over your friend that loves you.
+
+                                  _Shakespeare_
+
+
+  When an enemy has tried every expedient in vain, he will pretend
+  friendship, and then, by this pretext, execute designs which no
+  enemy could have effected.
+                                                           _Saadi_
+
+
+  Worldly friendship is profuse in honeyed words, passionate
+  endearments, commendations of beauty, while true friendship speaks a
+  simple honest language.
+                                                    _Francis de Sales_
+
+
+  Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspected
+  as it does religion.
+                                                         _Wycherley_
+
+
+                        I am weary
+  Of the bewildering masquerade of Life,
+  Where strangers walk as friends and friends as strangers;
+  Where whispers overheard betray false hearts;
+  And through the mazes of the crowd we chase
+  Some form of loveliness, that smiles, and beckons,
+  And cheats us with fair words, only to leave us
+  A mockery and a jest; maddened, confused,--
+  Not knowing friend from foe.
+                                               _Longfellow_
+
+
+
+
+Test of Friendship
+
+
+  A friend should be like money--tried before being required, not
+  found faulty in our need.
+                                                       _Plutarch_
+
+
+  He is our friend who loves more than admires us, and would aid us in
+  our great work.
+                                             _William Ellery Channing_
+
+
+  Know this, that he that is a friend to himself, is a friend to all
+  men.
+                                                            _Seneca_
+
+
+  A friend is he who sets his heart upon us, is happy with us, and
+  delights in us; does for us what we want, is willing and fully
+  engaged to do all he can for us, on whom we can rely in all cases.
+
+                                           _William Ellery Channing_
+
+
+  To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling
+  than to fill with credit and complacency any other station or
+  capacity in social life.
+                                                           _Mrs Ellis_
+
+
+  There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself; we
+  cannot force it any more than love.
+                                                         _Hazlitt_
+
+
+  If thou wouldst get a friend, prove him first, and be not hasty to
+  credit him. For some man is a friend for his own occasion, and will
+  not abide in the day of trouble.
+                                                     _Ecclesiasticus_
+
+
+  When I see leaves drop from their trees in the beginning of autumn,
+  just such, think I, is the friendship of the world. Whilst the sap
+  of maintenance lasts, my friends swarm in abundance; but in the
+  winter of my need they leave me naked. He is a happy man that hath a
+  true friend at his need; but he is more truly happy that hath no
+  need of his friend.
+                                                             _Warwick_
+
+
+  As the yellow gold is tried in the fire, so the faith of friendship
+  must be seen in adversity.
+                                                               _Ovid_
+
+
+  True friendship, like a star, is made brilliant by the dark night.
+
+                                                              _Anon_
+
+
+
+
+Proof of Friendship
+
+
+  That friendship only is genuine when two friends, without speaking a
+  word to each other, can, nevertheless, find happiness in being
+  together.
+                                                        _George Ebers_
+
+
+  Promises may get friends, but it is performance that must nurse and
+  keep them.
+                                                      _Owen Felltham_
+
+
+  He is a friend who, in dubious circumstances, aids in deeds when
+  deeds are necessary.
+                                                         _Plautus_
+
+
+  In friendship your heart is like a bell struck every time your
+  friend is in trouble.
+                                            _Henry Ward Beecher_
+
+
+  Let me be alone to the end of the world, rather than that my friend
+  should overstep by a word or a look his real sympathy.
+                                                            _Emerson_
+
+
+  The vital air of friendship is composed of confidence.
+
+                                           _Joseph Roux_
+
+
+  Friendship closes its eyes rather than see the moon eclipst; while
+  malice denies that it is ever at the full.
+                                              _J. C. and A. W. Hare_
+
+
+  The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
+
+                                           _Henry D. Thoreau_
+
+
+  It is a proof of a man's fitness for friendship that he is able to
+  do without that which is cheap and passionate. A true friendship is
+  as wise as it is tender.
+                                                   _Henry D. Thoreau_
+
+
+  A foe to God was ne'er true friend to man,
+  Some sinister intent taints all he does.
+
+                                     _Young_
+
+
+  The silence of a friend commonly amounts to treachery. His not
+  daring to say anything in our behalf implies a tacit censure.
+
+                                                       _Hazlitt_
+
+
+  Think not thy friend one who in fortune's hour
+  Boasts of his friendship and fraternity.
+  Him I call friend who sums up all his power
+  To aid thee in distress and misery.
+                                         _Saadi_
+
+
+
+
+Constancy of Friendship
+
+
+  A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
+
+                                                 _Proverbs_ xvii. 17
+
+
+  Oh happy days, oh early friends,
+  How Life since then hath lost its flowers!
+  But yet--tho' Time _some_ foliage rends,
+  The stem, the Friendship, still is ours;
+  And long may it endure, as green
+  And fresh as it hath always been!
+
+                              _Thomas Moore_
+
+
+  A true friend is for ever a friend.
+
+                   _George MacDonald_
+
+
+  Your friend has never really loved you, never quite trusted you, who
+  lightly lets himself think that you have drifted away from him.
+
+                                                      _Bishop Thorold_
+
+
+  There are three faithful friends--an old wife, an old dog, and ready
+  money.
+                                                   _Benjamin Franklin_
+
+
+  Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
+  And never brought to mind?
+  Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
+  And days o' lang syne?
+
+                              _Burns_
+
+
+  There is no treasure the which may be compared unto a faithful friend;
+  Gold soone decayeth, and worldly wealth consumeth and wasteth in the
+    winde:
+  But love once planted in a perfect and pure minde endureth weale or
+    woe;
+  The frownes of fortune, come they never so unkinde, cannot the same
+    overthrowe.
+                                                     _Roxburghe Ballads_
+
+
+  I am not of that feather to shake off
+  My friend when he must need me.
+
+                          _Shakespeare_
+
+
+  The faults of our friends ought never to anger us so far as to give
+  an advantage to our enemies.
+                                                  _Lord Chesterfield_
+
+
+  Love is and was my Lord and King,
+    And in his presence I attend
+    To hear the tidings of my friend,
+  Which every hour his couriers bring.
+
+                            _Tennyson_
+
+
+  So Life's year begins and closes;
+  Days, though short'ning, still can shine;
+  What though youth gave love and roses,
+  Age still leaves us friends and wine.
+
+                             _Thomas Moore_
+
+
+  "Let all be forgotten between us--
+  All save the dear old friendship, and that shall grow older and
+    dearer.
+                                                     _Longfellow_
+
+
+
+
+Lack of Friends
+
+
+  It is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends, without
+  which the world is but a wilderness.
+                                                            _Bacon_
+
+
+  Ill-starred, indeed, is he who injures men:
+  Is fortune adverse, he is friendless then.
+
+                                      _Saadi_
+
+
+  Those that want friends are cannibals of their own hearts.
+  Communicating a man's self to his friends redoubleth his joys and
+  cutteth griefs in halves. A friend is another _himself_. If a man
+  have not a friend, he may quit the world's stage!
+                                                            _Bacon_
+
+
+  A favourite has no friend.
+
+                      _Gray_
+
+
+  It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends; the mean and
+  cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
+
+                                                  _Charles Kingsley_
+
+
+  We walk alone in the world. Friends such as we desire are dreams and
+  fables. But a sublime hope cheers ever the faithful heart, that
+  elsewhere, in other regions of the universal power, souls are now
+  acting, enduring, and daring, which can love us and which we can
+  love.
+                                                             _Emerson_
+
+
+
+
+Loss of Friendship
+
+
+  Alas! they had been friends in youth;
+  But whispering tongues can poison truth;
+  And constancy lives in realms above;
+  And life is thorny; and youth is vain;
+  And to be wroth with one we love
+  Doth work like madness in the brain.
+
+                               _Coleridge_
+
+
+  Intimacies which increase vanity destroy friendship.
+
+                             _William Ellery Channing_
+
+
+  Between friends, frequent reproofs make the friendship distant.
+
+                                                      _Confucius_
+
+
+  Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions, because we have
+  made them a texture of wine and dreams, instead of the tough fibre
+  of the human heart. The laws of friendship are great, austere, and
+  eternal, of one web with the laws of nature and of morals.
+
+                                                             _Emerson_
+
+
+  Each spoke words of high disdain
+  And insult to his heart's best brother:
+  They parted--ne'er to meet again!
+  But never either found another
+  To free the hollow heart from paining--
+  They stood aloof, the scars remaining,
+  Like cliffs which had been rent asunder;
+  A dreary sea now flows between.
+  But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder,
+  Shall wholly do away, I ween,
+  The marks of that which once hath been.
+
+                                _Coleridge_
+
+
+
+
+Loss of Friends
+
+
+  What greetings smile, what farewells wave,
+  What loved ones enter and depart!
+  The good, the beautiful, the brave,
+  The Heaven-lent treasures of the heart!
+  How conscious seems the frozen sod
+  And beechen slope whereon they trod!
+  The oak-leaves rustle, and the dry grass bends
+  Beneath the shadowy feet of lost or absent friends.
+
+                                           _Whittier_
+
+
+  O friend! O best of friends! Thy absence more
+  Than the impending night darkens the landscape o'er!
+
+                                          _Longfellow_
+
+
+  What shall I do, my friend,
+  When you are gone forever?
+  My heart its eager need will send
+  Through the years to find you never,
+  And how will it be with you,
+  In the weary world I wonder,
+  Will you love me with a love as true,
+  When our paths be far asunder?
+
+                         _Mary Clemmer_
+
+
+  A man dies as he looses his friends.
+
+                               _Bacon_
+
+
+  We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a
+  widower, that man who has lost his wife.... And that man who has
+  known the immense unhappiness of losing his friend, by what name do
+  we call him?... Here every human language holds its peace in
+  impotence.
+                                                        _Joseph Roux_
+
+
+  The fallying out of faithful frends is the renuyng of love.
+
+                                            _Richard Edwards_
+
+
+  Alas! how light a cause may move
+  Dissension between hearts that love!--
+  Hearts, that the world in vain had tried
+  And sorrow but more closely tied;
+  That stood the storm when waves were rough,
+  Yet in a sunny hour fall off:--
+  Like ships that have gone down at sea,
+  When heaven is all tranquillity!
+
+                               _Thomas Moore_
+
+
+  Waste not the hour of friendship; outside this House of Two Doors
+  Friends shall soon part asunder, no more together wending.
+
+                                                            _Hafiz_
+
+
+  How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! O Jonathan,
+  thou wast slain in thine high places. I am distressed for thee, my
+  brother Jonathan: Very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to
+  me was wonderful, passing the love of women.
+
+                                                 2 _Samuel_ i. 25, 26
+
+
+  Some tears fell down my cheeks and then I smiled,
+  As those smile who have no face in the world
+  To smile back to them. I had lost a friend.
+
+                                     _Mrs Browning_
+
+
+  Forgive my grief for one removed,
+  Thy creature, whom I found so fair.
+  I trust he lives in thee, and there
+  I find him worthier to be loved.
+
+                           _Tennyson_
+
+
+      To wail friends lost
+  Is not by much so wholesome--profitable,
+  As to rejoice at friends but newly found.
+
+                              _Shakespeare_
+
+
+  That aching of the breast, the grandest pain that man endures, which
+  no other can assuage.
+                                                    _Henry D. Thoreau_
+
+
+
+
+Immortality of Friendship
+
+
+  A day for toil, an hour for sport,
+  But for a friend is life too short.
+
+                            _Emerson_
+
+
+  Let us lay hold of Friendship. In the eternal life shall we not have
+  friends for evermore?
+                                                       _Anna R. Brown_
+
+
+  Love is a sudden blaze which soon decays,
+  Friendship is like the sun's eternal rays.
+
+                                       _Gay_
+
+
+  Fast as the rolling seasons bring
+  The hour of fate to those we love,
+  Each pearl that leaves the broken string
+  Is set in friendship's crown above.
+  As narrower grows the earthly chain,
+  The circle widens in the sky;
+  These are our treasures that remain,
+  But those are stars that beam on high.
+
+                            _O. W. Holmes_
+
+
+  True friendship between man and man is infinite and immortal.
+
+                                                        _Plato_
+
+
+  Sweet human hand and lips and eye,
+  Dear heavenly friend that canst not die;
+  Strange friend, past, present and to be;
+  Loved deeplier, darklier understood;
+  Behold I dream a dream of good,
+  And mingle all the world with thee.
+
+  Thy voice is on the rolling air;
+  I hear thee where the waters run;
+  Thou standest in the rising sun,
+  And in the setting thou art fair.
+
+                                _Tennyson_
+
+
+  Not mine the sad and freezing dream
+  Of souls that, with their earthly mould,
+  Cast off the loves and joys of old,--
+       *       *       *       *       *
+  No!--I have friends in Spirit Land,--
+  Not shadows in a shadowy band,
+  Not _others_, but _themselves_ are they.
+  And still I think of them the same
+  As when the Master's summons came.
+
+                                _Whittier_
+
+
+  The way is short, O friend,
+  That reaches out before us;
+  God's tender heavens above us bend,
+  His love is smiling o'er us;
+  A little while is ours
+  For sorrow or for laughter;
+  I'll lay the hand you love in yours
+  On the shore of the Hereafter.
+
+                       _Mary Clemmer_
+
+
+  Yet less of sorrow lives in me
+    For days of happy commune dead;
+    Less yearning for the friendship fled,
+  Than some strong bond which is to be.
+
+                                _Tennyson_
+
+
+
+
+Index of Authors
+
+
+  Addison, 7
+
+  Alcott, A. B., 43, 44, 57
+
+  Anon, 26, 56, 57, 60, 68
+
+  Aristotle, 39
+
+  Arnot, 25
+
+
+  Bacon, 42, 44, 46, 47, 51, 58, 61, 76, 77, 83
+
+  Baillie, Joanna, 46
+
+  Ballads, Roxburghe, 74
+
+  Beecher, H. W., 69
+
+  Birrell, Augustine, 30
+
+  Black, Hugh, 9, 13, 18, 38, 42, 56
+
+  Blair, 31
+
+  Brown, Anna R., 32, 35, 87
+
+  Browning, Robert, 9, 11, 27, 55, 57
+
+  Browning, Mrs, 85
+
+  Bruyere, De la, 14
+
+  Burns, 44, 73
+
+  Byron, 28
+
+
+  Canticles, 26
+
+  Carlyle, 48
+
+  Channing, W. E., 42, 59, 65, 66, 79
+
+  Chesterfield, Lord, 75
+
+  Cicero, 7, 27, 37, 47
+
+  Clemmer, M., 82, 91
+
+  Coleridge, 35, 78, 80
+
+  Colton, 8, 32
+
+  Confucius, 22, 52, 79
+
+  Cowper, 62
+
+
+  Drummond, Henry, 15
+
+
+  Ebers, 68
+
+  Ecclesiasticus, 36, 67
+
+  Edwards, R., 83
+
+  Eliot, George, 45, 51, 58
+
+  Ellis, Mrs, 66
+
+  Emerson, 7, 8, 14, 15, 17, 19, 20, 22, 23, 24, 28, 33, 39, 42, 53, 69,
+    78, 79, 87
+
+  Euripides, 34
+
+
+  Felltham, Owen, 69
+
+  Fenelon, 30
+
+  Fielding, 21
+
+  Franklin, B., 73
+
+
+  Gay, 24, 55, 87
+
+  Goldsmith, 38, 43
+
+  Gray, 77
+
+
+  Hafiz, 12, 84
+
+  Hare, J. C. and A. W., 70
+
+  Hazlitt, 66, 71
+
+  Holmes, O. W., 18, 59, 60, 88
+
+  Homer, 41
+
+
+  Jerrold, Douglas, 13
+
+  John, St, 25, 54
+
+  Johnson, Samuel, 13, 50
+
+  Jonson, Ben, 30
+
+
+  Keats, 50
+
+  Kingsley, C., 77
+
+
+  Longfellow, 15, 29, 33, 36, 54, 61, 64, 76, 82
+
+
+  MacDonald, George, 73
+
+  Montaigne, 37
+
+  Moore, Thomas, 31, 72, 75, 84
+
+
+  Ovid, 68
+
+
+  Patmore, Coventry, 61
+
+  Persian, From the, 19
+
+  Philips, Catherine, 12, 20
+
+  Plato, 40, 88
+
+  Plautus, 69
+
+  Plutarch, 25, 65
+
+  Pope, 53
+
+  Proverb, German, 35
+
+  Proverb, Oriental, 33
+
+  Proverbs, The, 11, 26, 43, 72
+
+
+  Quarles, 49
+
+
+  Robertson, F. W., 59
+
+  Roux, Joseph, 27, 38, 51, 58, 70, 83
+
+
+  Saadi, 10, 25, 47, 54, 60, 63, 71, 76
+
+  Sales, Francis de, 63
+
+  Samuel (Book of), 85
+
+  Schiller, 35
+
+  Scuderi, Mlle. de, 17
+
+  Selden, 52
+
+  Seneca, 31, 65
+
+  Shakespeare, 23, 30, 36, 52, 53, 62, 74, 86
+
+  Smith, Horace, 48
+
+  Smith, Sydney, 56
+
+  Smith, William, 41
+
+
+  Taylor, Jeremy, 8, 24, 32, 39, 40, 50
+
+  Tennyson, 16, 24, 41, 45, 75, 86, 89, 91
+
+  Thackeray, 9, 46
+
+  Theophrastus, 40
+
+  Thoreau, Henry D., 28, 70, 86
+
+  Thorold, Bishop, 34, 73
+
+  Throckmorton, Allan, 10
+
+
+  Voltaire, 16
+
+
+  Warwick, 67
+
+  Washington, George, 37
+
+  Whittier, 81, 90
+
+  Wilson, Thomas, 40
+
+  Wycherley, 63
+
+
+  Young, 21, 71
+
+
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