For Auld Lang Syne | Page 3

to lower the value of the gift by
diminishing that of the donor. Ingratitude is an effort to recover our
own esteem by getting rid of our esteem for our benefactor, whom we
look upon as a sort of tooth-drawer, that has cured us of one pain by
inflicting another.
--Smith.

Friendship throws a greater lustre on prosperity, while it lightens
adversity by sharing in its griefs and anxieties.
--Cicero.

Friendship hath the skill and observation of the best physician; the

diligence and vigilance of the best nurse; and the tenderness and
patience of the best mother.
--Lord Clarendon.

Friendship! the precious gold of life
By age refined, yet ever new;

Tried in the crucible of time
It always rings of service true.
Friendship! the beauteous soul of life
Which gladdens youth and
strengthens age;
May it our hearts and lives entwine
Together on
life's fleeting page.
--Shaylor.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which strengthens with the
setting sun of life.
--La Fontaine.

Friendship, love, and piety, ought to be handled with a sort of
mysterious secrecy; they ought to be spoken of only in the rare
moments of perfect confidence.
--Novalis.

Few men are calculated for that close connection which we distinguish
by the name of friendship, and we well know the difference between a
friend and an acquaintance.
--Sterne.

Friendship is the nearest thing we know to what religion is. God is love.
And to make religion akin to friendship is simply to give it the highest
expression conceivable by man.
--Drummond.

Friendship is the great chain of human society.
--Howell.

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 charity of our minds, the emission of our
thoughts, the exercise and improvement of what we meditate.
--Taylor.

Friendship springs up from sources so subtile and undefinable, that it
cannot be forced into particular channels; and whenever the attempt has
been made, it has usually been unsuccessful.
--Day.

God wills that we have sorrows here,
And we will share it;
Whisper
thy sorrow in my ear,
That I may also bear it.
If anywhere our
trouble seems
To find an end,
'Tis in the fairy land of dreams,
Or
with a friend.
--Tennyson.

Friendship is a union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond

thereof virtue.
--Penn.

Friendship that makes the least noise is very often the most useful; for
which reason I should prefer a prudent friend to a zealous one.
--Addison.

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 depends
On many, rarely finds a
friend.
--Gay.

Friend is a word of royal tone;
Friend is a poem all alone.
--From the Persian.

Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible
tokens of your love. It is well worth while to learn how to win the heart
of man the right way. Force is of no use to make or preserve a friend,
who is an animal that is never caught and tamed but by kindness and
pleasure. Excite them by your civilities, and show them that you desire
nothing more than their satisfaction; oblige with all your soul that
friend who has made you a present of his own.
--Socrates.

He who gives pleasure, meets with it; kindness is the bond of

friendship, and the book of love; he who sows not, reaps not.

Friendship is the holiest of gifts,
God can bestow nothing more
sacred upon us!
It enhances every joy, mitigates every pain.

Everyone can have a friend
Who himself knows how to be a friend.
--Teidge.

In this respect friendship is superior to relationship, because from
relationship benevolence can be withdrawn, and from friendship it
cannot; for with the withdrawal of benevolence the very name of
friendship is done away, while that of relationship remains.
--Cicero.

I want a warm and faithful friend,
To cheer the adverse hour;
Who
ne'er to flatter will descend,
Nor bend the knee to power.
A friend
to chide me when I'm wrong,
My inmost soul to see;
And that my
friendship prove as strong
To him as his to me.
--Adams.

Friendship's true laws are by this rule expressed,
Welcome the
coming, speed the parting guest.
--Pope.

Human spirits are only to be drawn together and held together by the
living bond of having found something in which they really do agree.

--Greenwell.

He has the substance of all bliss
To whom a virtuous friend is given:

So sweet harmonious friendship is,
Add but eternity, you'll make it
heaven.
--Norris.

He who wrongs his friend
Wrongs himself more and ever bears about

A silent court of justice in his breast.
--Tennyson.

Hearts only