For Auld Lang Syne | Page 9

your
griefs to your friend.
--Shakespeare.

When a man cannot fitly play his own part, if he have not a friend he
may quit the stage.
--Bacon.

We want one or two companions of intelligence, probity, and grace, to
wear out life with; persons by whom we can measure ourselves, and
who shall hold us fast to good sense and virtue.
--Emerson.

A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and
talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. In a great town
friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship, for the most
part, which is in less neighborhoods. But we may go farther and affirm
most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude, to want true friends,
without which the world is but a wilderness. Whosoever in the frame of
his nature and affections is unfit for friendship, he taketh it of the beast,
and not from humanity.
--Francis Bacon.

And thou, my friend, whose gentle love
Yet thrills my bosom's
chords,
How much thy friendship was above
Description's power of
words.
--Lord Byron.

As friendship must be founded on mutual
esteem, it cannot long exist
among
the vicious.
--Horace Smith.

A friend is worth all the hazards we can run.
--Edward Young.

A true friend is forever a friend.
--George MacDonald.

A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his
friends in countenance.
--Benjamin Franklin.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that
actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
--Washington.

A faithful friend is better than gold--a medicine for misery, an only
possession.
--Burton.

Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of
God's best gifts. It involves many things, but, above all, the power of
going out of one's self and seeing and appreciating whatever is noble
and loving in another.
--Hughes.

Cultivate the friendships of thy youth; it is only in that generous time
they are formed.
--Thackeray.

Companions I have enough, friends few.
--Pope.

Friendship is steady and peaceful; not much jealousy, and no
heartburnings. It strengthens with time, and survives the smallpox and a
wooden leg. It doubles our joys, divides our griefs, and warms our lives
with a steady flame.
--Reade.

Friendship above all ties doth bind the heart,
And Faith is Friendship
in its noblest part.
--Earl of Orrey.

Friendship, peculiar boon of Heaven,
The noble mind's delight and
pride,
To men and angels only given,
To all the lower world denied.
--Samuel Johnson.

Friendship is a plant which cannot be forced. True friendship is no
gourd, springing up in a night and withering in a day.
--Charlotte Bronte.

Friendship always benefits, while love sometimes injures.
--Seneca.

Friendship heightens all our affections. We, receive all the ardor of our
friend in addition to our own. The communication of minds gives to
each the fervor of each.
--Channing.

Fate, which has ordained that there shall be no friendship among the
evil, has also ordained that there shall ever be friendship among the
good.
--Plato.

False friendship turns to evil desires, upbraidings, slander, deceit,
sorrow, confusion and jealousies; but pure friendship is always the
same, modest, courteous and loving, knowing no change save an
increasingly pure and perfect union.
--De Sales.

Friendship is love with understanding.
--Proverb.

Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives, and remembering
what one receives.
--Dumas.

Friendship is said to be a plant of tedious growth, its roots composed of
tender fibers, nice in their taste, cautious in spreading.
--Vanbrough.

Friendship springs from nature rather than from need.
--Cicero.

Friendship, a dear balm--
Whose coming is as light and music are

'Mid dissonance and gloom:--a star
Which moves not 'mid the
moving heavens alone;
A smile among dark frowns: a beloved light:

A solitude, a refuge, a delight.
--P. B. Shelley.

Friendship is the greatest bond in the world.
--Jeremy Taylor.
Friendship is love without wings.
--Byron.
For as yellow gold is tried by fire, so do moments of adversity prove
the strength of friendship. While fortune is friendly and smiles with
serene countenance, crowds surround the rich; but when heaven's
thunder rolls, they vanish, nor has he one who knows him, though
lately encircled by troops of boon companions.
--Ovid.
Our best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; and

when they hear us praised by others, will ascribe it to sinister and
interested motives if they can.
--C. C. Colton.

For to have the same predilections and the same aversions, that and that
alone is the surest bond of friendship.
--Sallust.
False friends, like insects in a summer's day,
Bask in the sunshine,
but avoid the shower;
Uncertain visitants, they flee away
E'en when
misfortune's cloud