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_Jeremy Taylor_
Friends.h.i.+p is to be purchased only by friends.h.i.+p. 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, pa.s.sed in music out of sight.
_Tennyson_
True friends.h.i.+p's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
_Homer_
Service of Friends.h.i.+p
The services which cement friends.h.i.+p are reciprocal services.
_William Smith_
Friends are to incite one another to G.o.d'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 princ.i.p.al fruit of friends.h.i.+p is the use and discharge of the fulness and swellings of the heart, which pa.s.sions of all kinds do cause and induce.
_Bacon_
Most of our friends.h.i.+ps 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
Friends.h.i.+p 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's.h.i.+p 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 G.o.d, 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_