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KINDRED passions and pursuits are the natural groundwork of friendship. Real friendship is of slow growth, and never thrives, unless ingrafted upon a stock of known and reciprocal merit.

-Chesterfield.

LET this, therefore, be established as a primary law concerning friendship, that we expect from our friends only what is honorable, and for our friends' sake do what is honorable; that we should not wait till we are asked; that zeal be ever ready, and reluctance far from us.

-Cicero.

LET Friendship's accents cheer our doubtful way,

And Love's pure planet lend its guiding ray,

Our tardy Art shall wear an angel's wings,

And life shall lengthen with the joy it

brings!

-Holmes.

I AM not of that feather, to shake off my friend when most he needs me.

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LET the honor of thy friend be as dear unto thee as thy own.

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LIFE to be rich and fertile must be reinforced with friendship. It is the sap that preserves from blight and withering; it is the sunshine that beckons on the blossoming and fruitage; it is the starlight dew that perfumes life with sweetness and besprinkles it with splendor; it is the music-tide that sweeps the soul, scattering treasures; it is the victorious and blessed leader of integrity's forlorn hope; it is the potent alchemy that transmutes failure into success; it is the hidden manna that nourishes when all other sustenance fails; it is the voice that speaks to hopes all dead, "Because I live, ye shall live also." For the loftiest friendships have no commercial element in them: they are founded

on disinterestedness and sacrifices. They neither expect nor desire a return for gift or service. Amid the tireless breaking of the billows on the shores of experience, there is no surer anchorage than a friendship that "beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things.'

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-Cooper.

IT is one of the wretchednesses of the great that they have no approved friends. Kings are the most solitary beings on earth.

-Channing.

MANY kinds of fruit grow upon the tree of life, but none so sweet as friend

ship.

-Larcom.

MY treasures are my friends.

-Constantius.

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LOVE begins with love; and there is no passing from firm friendship to even feeble love. -La Bruyère.

LIVE not without a friend; the Alpine
rock must own

Its mossy grace or else be nothing but a
-Story.

stone.

LET the soul be assured that somewhere in the universe it should rejoin its friend, and it would be content and cheerful alone for a thousand years.

-Emerson.

MAKE new friends, but keep the old;
Those are silver, these are gold,

Brow may wrinkle, hair grows grey:
True friendship never knows decay.

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-Anon.

OH, the comfort-the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a personhaving neither to weigh thought nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.

-Muloch.

O MATCHLESS wisdom; those seem to take the sun out of the world who remove friendship from the pleasures of life: than which we have received nothing better or more pleasant from the gods. -Cicero.

NOT on the store of sprightly wine,
Nor plenty of delicious meats,
Though generous Nature did design
To court us with perpetual treats;
"Tis not on these we for content depend,

So much as on the shadow of a friend.
-Menander.

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