For Auld Lang Syne | Page 7

the same relation to his friend as he has to himself.
--Aristotle.

There is in friendship something of all relations and something above them all. It is the golden thread that ties the hearts of all the world.
--Evelyn.

To God be humble, and to thy friend be kind.
--Dunbar.

The perfection of loving-kindness is to efface ourselves so thoroughly that those we benefit shall not think themselves inferior to him who benefits them.
--Balzac.

The purest and most lasting human friendships are permeated with an element of reverence.
--Phelps.

There are gold-bright suns in worlds above,?And blazing gems in worlds below,?Our world has Love and only Love,?For living warmth and jewel glow;?God's love is sunlight to the good,?And Woman's pure as diamond sheen,?And Friendships's mystic brotherhood?In twilight beauty lies between.
--Milne.

The friendship which arises from contraries is horrible and coarse, and has often no tie of communion; but that which arises from likeness is gentle, and has a tie of communion, which lasts through life.
--Plato.

To live with one's enemies as if they might one day be our friends, and to live with our friends as though they might one day become our enemies, is neither natural to hatred nor consistent with friendship. Such a maxim is not moral, but politic.
--La Bruyere.

To take the companionship of life from life, what else is it than to take away the means of absent friends conversing together?
--Cicero.

The love of friendship is the most perfect form of loving.
--Cardinal Manning.

The highest compact we can make with our fellow is, Let there be truth between us two forevermore. It is sublime to feel and say of another, I need never meet, or speak, or write to him; we need not reinforce ourselves or send tokens of remembrance, I rely on him as on myself; if he did thus or thus I know it was right.
--Emerson.

True friendship between man and man is infinite and immortal.
--Plato.

There is a magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no hearts.
--Disraeli.

Think it not friendship which ever seeks itself, but that which gives itself for others.
--Marshall.

The vital air of friendship is composed of confidences.
--Roux.

When Socrates was building himself a house at Athens, being asked by one that observed the littleness of the design why a man so eminent would not have an abode more suitable to his dignity, he replied that he should think himself sufficiently accommodated if he could see that narrow habitation filled with real friends.
--Johnson.

While friendship embraces very many and great advantages, she undoubtedly surpasses all in this, that she shines with a brilliant hope over the future, and never suffers the spirit to be weakened or to sink. Besides, he who looks on a true friend, looks, as it were, upon a kind of image of himself; wherefore, friends, though absent, are still present; though in poverty, they are rich; though weak, yet in the enjoyment of health; and, what is still more difficult to assert, though dead, they are alive; so entirely does the honor, the memory, the regret of friends attend them.
--Cicero.

Thine own friend and thy father's friend, forsake not.
--Solomon.

While I keep my senses I shall prefer nothing to a pleasant friend.
--Horace.

What a great blessing is a friend, with a breast so trusty that thou mayest safely bury all thy secrets in it, whose conscience thou mayest fear less than thine own, who can relieve thy cares by his conversation, thy doubts by his counsels, thy sadness by his good humor, and whose very look gives comfort to thee!
--Seneca.

What can be more delightful than to have one to whom you can speak on all subjects just as to yourself? Where would be the great enjoyment in prosperity if you had not one to rejoice in it equally with yourself? And adversity would indeed be difficult to endure without some one who would bear it even with greater regret than yourself.
--Cicero.

With one friend I would count myself rich.
--Nusbaum.

What is bestowed on our friends is beyond the reach of fortune; the riches that thou hast given away are the only riches that thou really possessest.
--Martial.

Well chosen friendship, the most noble?Of virtues, all our joys makes double?And into halves divides our trouble.
--Denham.

We are most of us very lonely in this world; you who have any who love you, cling to them and thank God.
--Thackeray.
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought?I summon up remembrance of things past,?I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,?And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste:?Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow,?For precious friends hid in death's dateless night,?And weep afresh love's long since canceled woe,?And moan the expense of many a vanished sight:?Then can I grieve at grievances foregone,?And heavily from woe to woe tell o'er?The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan,?Which I new pay as