For Auld Lang Syne | Page 6

a throne!
--Tennyson.

Pure friendship is something which men of an inferior intellect can
never taste.

--La Bruyere.

Sweet words will multiply a man's friends; and a fair-speaking tongue
will multiply courtesies. Let those that are at peace with thee be many;
but thy counsellors one of a thousand. If thou wouldest get thee a friend,
get him by proving, and be not in haste to trust him. For there is a
friend that is so for his own occasion, and he will not continue in the
day of thy affliction. And there is a friend that turneth to enmity; and he
will discover strife to thy reproach. And there is a friend that is a
companion at the table, and he will not continue in the day of thy
affliction; and in thy prosperity he will be as thyself, and will be bold
over thy servants; if thou shalt be brought low, he will be against thee,
and he will hide himself from thy face.
--Bible.

The first thing you should procure, after faith, is a good friend.
--Arabic.

Such a friendship, that through it we love places and seasons; for as
bright bodies emit rays at a distance, and flowers drop their sweet
leaves on the ground around them, so friends impart favor even to the
places where they dwell. With friends even poverty is pleasant. Words
cannot express the joy which a friend imparts; they only can know who
have experienced. A friend is dearer than the light of heaven, for it
would be better for us that the sun were extinguished than that we
should be without friends.
--S. Chrysostom.

Strange as it may sound, we are sometimes rather disposed to choose

our friends from the unworthy than the worthy; for though it is difficult
to love those whom we do not esteem, it is a greater difficulty to love
those whom we esteem much more than ourselves. A perfect friendship
requires equality, even in virtue.
--Smith.

Sincerity, truth, faithfulness, come into the very essence of friendship.
--Channing.

Somehow or other, friendship entwines itself with the life of all men,
nor does it suffer any mode of spending our life to be independent of
itself.
--Cicero.

Small service is true service while it lasts,
Of humblest friends, bright
creature, scorn not one;
The daisy by the shadow that it casts

Protects the lingering dewdrop from the sun.
--Wordsworth.

Some friendships are made by nature, some by contract, some by
interest, and some by souls.
--Taylor.

They who dare to ask anything of a friend, by their very request seem
to imply that they would do anything for the sake of a friend.

--Cicero.

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.
--Ellis.

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth
and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a
friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self;
and there is no such remedy against flattery of a man's self as the
liberty of a friend.
--Bacon.

The laws of friendship are austere and eternal, of one web with the laws
of nature and of morals.
--Emerson.

To he only an admirer is not to be a friend of a human being. Human
nature wants something more, and our perceptions are diseased when
we dress up a human being in the attributes of divinity. He is our friend
who loves more than admires us, and would aid us in our great work.
--Channing.

True, active, productive friendship consists in keeping equal pace in
life, in the approval of my aims by my friend, while I approve his, and
thus moving forward together steadily, however much our way of

thought and life may vary.
--Goethe.

The man, that comforts a desponding friend
With words alone, does
nothing. He's a friend
Indeed, who proves himself a friend in need.
--Plautus.

The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have
of a man's success in life.
--Hale.

Truthfulness, frankness, disinterestedness, and faithfulness are the
qualities absolutely essential to friendship, and these must be crowned
by a sympathy that enters into all the joys, the sorrows and the interests
of the friend; that delights in all his upward progress, and when he
stumbles or falls, stretches out the helping hand, and is tender and
patient even when it condemns.
--Ware.

The expensiveness of friendship does not lie in what one does for one's
friends, but in what, out of regard for them, one leaves undone.
--Ibsen.

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