For Auld Lang Syne | Page 8

if not paid before.?But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,?All losses are restored and sorrows end.
--Shakespeare.

You shall perceive how you?Mistake my fortunes; I am wealthy in my friends.
--Shakespeare.

You must, therefore, love me myself, and not my circumstances, if we are to be real friends.
--Cicero.

With conscious pride I view the band?Of faithful friends that round me stand,?With pride exult that I alone?Can join these scattered gems in one;?For they're a wreath of pearls, and I?The silken cord on which they lie.?'Tis mine their inmost souls to see,?Unlocked is every heart to me,?To me they cling, on me they rest,?And I've a place in every breast.?For they're a wreath of pearls, and I?The silken cord on which they lie.
--From the Arabic.

What room can there be for friendship, or who can be a friend to any one whom he does not love for his own sake? And what is loving, from which verb (amo) the very name of friendship (amicitia) is derived, but wishing a certain person to enjoy the greatest possible good fortune, even if none of it accrues to one's self?
--Cicero.

What makes us so changeable in our friendships is the difficulty we have in discerning the qualities of the heart, and the ease with which we discern those of the mind.
--La Rochefoucauld.

Worldly friendship is profuse in honeyed words, passionate endearments, commendations of beauty, while true friendship speaks a simple honest language.
--De Sales.

You cannot find a man who fully loves any living thing, that, dolt and dullard though he be, is not in some spot lovable himself. He gets something from his friends if he had nothing at all before.
--Brooks.

We can live without a brother, but not without a friend.
--German Proverb.

Whatever is founded on mere carnal love, vanity or frivolity, on such attractions as are purely external, a sweet voice, personal beauty, superficial cleverness or outward show, is unworthy to be called friendship.
--De Sales.

You do surely bar the door upon your own liberty, if you deny 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