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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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+ 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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+ 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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