Devotion of Friendship
Friendship? two bodies and one soul.
Joseph Roux
It is easy to say how we lovenewfriends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibres that knit us to theold.
George Eliot
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
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.
Johnxv. 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
Longfellow
Gay
Robert Browning
When two friends part, they should lock up each other's secrets and exchange keys.
Anon
Joy of Friendship
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
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
Longfellow
It is good discretion not to make too much of any man at first, because one cannot hold out that proportion.
Bacon
Cowper
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
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
Young
The silence of a friend commonly amounts to treachery. His not daring to say anything in our behalf implies a tacit censure.
Hazlitt
Saadi
Constancy of Friendship
A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
Proverbsxvii. 17
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
Burns
Roxburghe Ballads
Shakespeare
The faults of our friends ought never to anger us so far as to give an advantage to our enemies.
Lord Chesterfield
Tennyson
Thomas Moore
Longfellow
Lack of Friends
It is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends, without which the world is but a wilderness.
Bacon
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 anotherhimself. 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
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
Coleridge
Loss of Friends
Whittier
Longfellow
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
Thomas Moore
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.
2Samueli. 25, 26
Mrs Browning
Tennyson
Shakespeare
That aching of the breast, the grandest pain that man endures, which no other can assuage.
Henry D. Thoreau
Immortality of Friendship
Emerson
Let us lay hold of Friendship. In the eternal life shall we not have friends for evermore?
Anna R. Brown
Gay
O. W. Holmes
True friendship between man and man is infinite and immortal.
Plato
Tennyson
Whittier
Mary Clemmer
Tennyson
Index of Authors
Addison,7Alcott, A. B.,43,44,57Anon,26,56,57,60,68Aristotle,39Arnot,25Bacon,42,44,46,47,51,58,61,76,77,83Baillie, Joanna,46Ballads, Roxburghe,74Beecher, H. W.,69Birrell, Augustine,30Black, Hugh,9,13,18,38,42,56Blair,31Brown, Anna R.,32,35,87Browning, Robert,9,11,27,55,57Browning, Mrs,85Bruyère, De la,14Burns,44,73Byron,28Canticles,26Carlyle,48Channing, W. E.,42,59,65,66,79Chesterfield, Lord,75Cicero,7,27,37,47Clemmer, M.,82,91Coleridge,35,78,80Colton,8,32Confucius,22,52,79Cowper,62Drummond, Henry,15Ebers,68Ecclesiasticus,36,67Edwards, R.,83Eliot, George,45,51,58Ellis, Mrs,66Emerson,7,8,14,15,17,19,20,22,23,24,28,33,39,42,53,69,78,79,87Euripides,34Felltham, Owen,69Fénelon,30Fielding,21Franklin, B.,73Gay,24,55,87Goldsmith,38,43Gray,77Hafiz,12,84Hare, J. C. and A. W.,70Hazlitt,66,71Holmes, O. W.,18,59,60,88Homer,41Jerrold, Douglas,13John, St,25,54Johnson, Samuel,13,50Jonson, Ben,30Keats,50Kingsley, C.,77Longfellow,15,29,33,36,54,61,64,76,82MacDonald, George,73Montaigne,37Moore, Thomas,31,72,75,84Ovid,68Patmore, Coventry,61Persian, From the,19Philips, Catherine,12,20Plato,40,88Plautus,69Plutarch,25,65Pope,53Proverb, German,35Proverb, Oriental,33Proverbs, The,11,26,43,72Quarles,49Robertson, F. W.,59Roux, Joseph,27,38,51,58,70,83Saadi,10,25,47,54,60,63,71,76Sales, Francis de,63Samuel (Book of),85Schiller,35Scuderi, Mlle. de,17Selden,52Seneca,31,65Shakespeare,23,30,36,52,53,62,74,86Smith, Horace,48Smith, Sydney,56Smith, William,41Taylor, Jeremy,8,24,32,39,40,50Tennyson,16,24,41,45,75,86,89,91Thackeray,9,46Theophrastus,40Thoreau, Henry D.,28,70,86Thorold, Bishop,34,73Throckmorton, Allan,10Voltaire,16Warwick,67Washington, George,37Whittier,81,90Wilson, Thomas,40Wycherley,63Young,21,71
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