"T is thus that on the choice of friends Be not jealous of thy friend's friendship for another; surely the more friends he hath, the better friend he is to have. In many cases of friendship, or what passes for it, the old axiom is reversed, and like clings to unlike more than to like. Make me to love my feller-man Yea, though his bitterness Doth bite as only adders can Let me the fault confess, And go to him and clasp his hand, And love him none the less. From vane concete with him, And he whose pius eyes can see I never yet cast a true affection on a woman; but I have loved my friend as I do virtue, my soul, my God. I love my friend. before myself, and yet methinks I do not love him enough: some few months hence my multiplied affection will make me believe I have not loved him at all. When I am from him, I am dead till I be with him; when I am with him I am not satisfied, but would be still nearer him. John Christopher Banniste Dickens in "Martin Chuzzlewit." James comb Riley in "Mortul Prayer" Sir Browne in "Religio Medici" 50 Joanna John Theodore Munger Oliver Wendell Holmes Thomas Benjamin Harriet B. Stowe Jane Austen Caleb Colton Henry Wallace Friendship is no plant of hasty growth; From springs! wine what sudden friendship wine Choose a friend as thou dost a wife, till death separates you. A calm, clear mind, not subject to the Absence not long enough to root out quite Friendships are discovered rather than made. Friendship is certainly the finest balm for pangs of disappointed love. Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship never. Seek no friend to make him useful, for that is the negation of friendship; but seek him that you may be useful, for this is of friendship's essence. Tur Frie For But mo CO fo ta u C G THE STEPPING STONES Turn him and see his threads, look if he be The chief friend and friend-maker is money. If we first quarrel we shall eventually become sympathetic friends. A good man is the best friend, and therefore soonest to be chosen, longest to be retained; and indeed never to be parted with, unless he cease to be that for which he was chosen. These friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, When we live through love we begin friendship. Friendship made in a moment is of no moment. Choose your companions wisely, and your friends will come about naturally. Friendship springs from nature rather than from need. Yet how often we know merely the sight of those we call our friends, or the sound of their voices, but nothing whatever of their mind or soul. |