FRIENDS FRIENDS
Ah! were I sever"d from thy side,
Where were thy friend and who my guide?
Years have not seen, Time shall not see
The hour that tears my soul from thee.
Byron—Bride of Abydos. Canto I. St. 11.
'Twas sung, how they were lovely in their lives,
And in their deaths had not divided been.
Campbell—Gertrude of Wyoming. Pt. III.
St. 33.
Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe;
Bold I can meet—perhaps may turn his blow;
But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can
send,
Save, save, oh! save me from the candid friend.
George Canning—New Morality.
Greatly his foes he dreads, but more his friends,
He hurts me most who lavishly commends.
Churchill—The Apology. L. 19.
Friends I have made, whom Envy must commend,
But not one foe whom I would wish a friend.
Churchill—Conference. L. 297.'
Amicus est tanquam alter idem.
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
Cicero—De Amicitia. XXI. 80. (Adapted.}})
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| text = Our very 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—Loam. P. 80.
Soyons amis, Cinna, c'est moi qui t'en convie.
Let us be friends, Cinna, it is I who invite
you to be so.
Corneille—Cinna. V. 3.
I would not enter on my list of friends
(Though graced with polish'd manners and fine
sense ;
Yet wanting sensibility) the man
Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.
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| work = The Task. Bk. VI. L. 560.
li She that asks
Her dear five hundred friends, contemns them
all,
And hates their coming.
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| work = The Task. Bk. n. L. 642.
The man that hails you Tom or Jack,
And proves by thumps upon your back
How he esteems your merit,
Is such a friend, that one had need
Be very much his friend indeed
To pardon or to bear it.
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| work = On Friendship- 169.
| seealso = (See also Young)
Le sort fait les parents, le choix fait les amis.
Chance makes our parents, but choice makes
our friends.
Delille—PUii.
Les amis—ces parents que l'on se fait soi-meme.
Friends, those relations that one makes for
one's self.
Deschamps—L'Ami.
"WaPr, my boy," replied the captain; "in the Proverbs of Solomon you will find the following words: 'May we never want a friend in need, nor a bottle to give him!' When found, make a note of."
Be kind to my remains; and O defend.
Against your judgment, your departed, friend.
Dryden—Epistle to Congreve. L. 72.
The poor make no new friends;
But oh, they love the better still
The few our Father sends.
Lady Dufferin—Lament of the Irish Emir
Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not
comparable unto him. A new friend is as new
wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with
pleasure.
Ecclesiasticus. IX. 10.
The fallying out of faithful frends is the
reunyng of love.
Richard Edwards—The Paradise of Dainty
Devices. No. 42. St. 1.
Animals are such agreeable friends—they ask
no questions, they pass no criticisms.
George Eliot—Mr. GUfil's Love-Story. Ch.
VII.
Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!
George Eliot—The Spanish Gypsy. Bk. III.
Friend more divine than all divinities.
George Eliot?—The Spanish Gypsy. Bk. IV.
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,
Mrs. Ellis—Pictures of Private Life. Second
^_Series. The Pains of Pleasing. Ch. IV.
Amy for toil, an hour for sport,
But for a friend is life too short.
Emerson—Considerations by the Way.
Our friends early appear to us as representatives of certain ideas, which they never pass or
exceed. They stand on the brink of the ocean
of thought and power, but they never take a single step that would bring them there.
Emerson—Essays. Of Experience.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
