Grace King of Charles Wagner Eliza Francis And a friend came to his rescue, and gave him his first intellectual and moral comfort; and friendship eased the years not only to peace, but to happiness. I am glad I learned to love the things For friendship maketh indeed a fair day in the affections from storm and tempest, but it maketh daylight in the understanding, out of the darkness and confusion of thoughts. South T is something to be willing to commend; erne Brewster Matthews Shake All religion is summed up in the idea of friendship and friendliness: They make the parable of the Good Samaritan, the Sermon on the Mount, and the Golden Rule itself. And thou shalt prove a shelter to thy friends, speare A hoop of gold to bind thy brothers in. Madame de Stae Heywood Your friendship is like the spring in the desert, that never fails; and it is this which makes it impossible not to love you. Shake in speare "Timon of Athens" Oh, no doubt, my good friends, but the gods themselves have provided that I shall have much help from you: how had you been my friends else? why have you that charitable title from thousands, did not you Acti, Sc. 2 chiefly belong to my heart? I have told more of you to myself than you can with modesty speak in your own behalf; and thus far I confirm you. O you gods, think I, what need we have any friends, if we should ne'er have need of 'em? they were the most needless creatures living, should we ne'er have use for 'em, and would most resemble sweet instruments hung up in cases, that keep their sounds to themselves. Why, I have often wished myself poorer, that I might come nearer to you. We are born to do benefits; and what better or properer can we call our own than the riches of our friends? Friendship! mysterious cement of the soul! Robert Bysshe Shelley That Nature masks in life several copies Friendship is the only point in human affairs, concerning the benefit of which, all men with one voice agree. Cicero Shake speare Cam bridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge William Saint Chrysos tom Chaucer Francis "Of Friend ship" You do surely bar the door upon your own liberty, if you deny your griefs to your friend. Friendship can smooth the front of rude despair. Flowers are lovely; Love is flower-like; A pure friendship inspires, cleanses, expands, and strengthens the soul. A faithful friend is the medicine of life; for what cannot be effected by means of a true friend? or what utility, what security, does he not afford? What pleasure has friendship? The mere beholding him diffuses an unspeakable joy, and at the bare memory of him the mind is elevated. The wise eke saith, woe him that is alone, This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects, for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in halves. For there is no man that imparteth his joys to his friend but he enjoyeth the more, and no man that imparteth his griefs to his friend but he grieveth the less. At the need the friend is known. As bees mixed nectar draw from fragrant flowers, There are some to whom we speak almost in a language of our own, with the confidence that all our broken hints are recognized with a thrill of kinship, and our half-uttered thoughts discerned and shared: some with whom we need not cramp our meaning into the dead form of an explicit accuracy, and with whom we can forecast that we shall walk together in undoubting sympathy even over tracks of taste and belief which we may never yet have touched. Like gushing water brooks, Freshening and making green the dimmest nooks. Of thy friend's soul thy kindness should flow. Caxton Edward Bishop Paget James Russell Lowell Samuel The greatest benefit which one friend can, confer upon another, is to guard, and excite, Johnson and elevate his virtues. How sweet, how passing sweet is solitude! 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 friend if he had nothing at all before. La Bruyère Phillips William William Shake speare Henry David Thoreau Love, in its high and pure form, is confined to one object. Friendship has this advantage, that it may be given to all, however numerous, whose conduct and qualities of character are fitted to command it. It is, therefore, less perilous, less exposed to fatal wreck, more capable of consolations and replacements. When to the sessions of sweet silent thought And with old woes new wail my dear time's Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow, For precious friends hid in death's dateless And weep afresh love's long since cancelled woe, And heavily from woe to woe tell o'er Which I now pay as if not paid before: Think of the importance of friendship in the education of men. It will make a man honest; it will make him a hero; it will make him a saint. It is the state of the just dealing with the just; the magnanimous with the magnanimous; the sincere with the sincere; man with man. |