302 FRIENDSHIP FRIENDSHIP
A sudden thought strikes me—Let us swear
an eternal friendship.
John H. Frere—The Rovers. Act I.
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| text = <poem>Friendship, like love, is but a name,
Unless to one you stint the flame.
Gay—The Hare with Many Friends.
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| text = <poem>To friendship every burden's light.
Gay—The Hare with Many Friends.
Who friendship with a knave hath made,
Is judg'd a partner in the trade.
Gay—Old Woman and Her Cats.
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| text = And what is friendship but a name,
A charm that lulls to sleep;
A shade that follows wealth or fame,
And leaves the wretch to weep?
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| work = Edwin and Angelina, or The Hermit. St. 19.
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| text = <poem>Friendship closes its eye, rather than see the
moon eclipst; while malice denies that it is ever
at the full.
J. C. and A. W. Hare—Guesses at Truth.
Friendship is Love, without either flowers or
veil.
J. C. and A. W. Hare—Guesses at Truth.
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| text = <poem>Fast as the rolling seasons bring
The hour of fate to those we love,
Each pearl that leaves the broken string
Is set in Friendship's crown above.
As narrower grows the earthly chain,
The circle widens in the sky;
These are our treasures that remain.
But those are stars that beam on high.
Holmes—Songs of Many Seasons. Our Classmate, F. W. C, 1864.
A generous friendship no cold medium knows,
Burns with one love, with one resentment glows;
One should our interests and our passions be,
My friend must hate the man that injures me.
Homer—Iliad. Bk. LX. L. 725
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If a man does not make new acquaintances, as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.
Friendship, peculiar boon of Heaven,
The noble mind's delight and pride,
To men and angels only given,
To all the lower worid denied.
| author = Samuel Johnson
| work = Friendship. An Ode.
The endearing elegance of female friendship.
| author = Samuel Johnson
| work = Rasselas. Ch. XLVI.
In Friendship we only see those faults which
may be prejudicial to our friends. In love we
see no faults but those by which we suffer ourselves.
La Bruyère—Characters or Manners of the
Present Age. Ch. V.
Love and friendship exclude' each other.
La Bruyère—Characters or Manners of the
Present Age. Ch. V.
friendship is something which men of an
inferior intellect can never taste.
La Bruyère—Characters or Manners of the
Present Age. Ch. V.
Come back! ye friendships long departed!
That like o'erflowing streamlets started,
And now are dwindled, one by one,
To stony channels in the sun!
Come back! ye friends, whose lives are ended,
Come back, with all that light attended,
Which seemed to darken and decay
When ye arose and went away!
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| work = Christus. Pt. II. The Golden
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"You will forgive me, I hope, for the sake of the
friendship between us,
Which is too true and too sacred to be so easily
broken!"
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| work = The Courtship of Miles Standish. PrisciOa. Pt. VI. L. 22.
Nulla fides regni sociis omnisque potestas
Impatiens consortis erit.
There is no friendship between those associated in power; he who rules will always be
impatient of an associate.
Lucan—Pharsalia. I. 92.
My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
Moliere—Le Bourgeois GentHhomme. Act IV.
Sc. 1.
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| text = <poem>Oh, call it by some better name,
For Friendship sounds too cold.
Moore—Oh, call it by some better Name.
Forsooth, brethren, fellowship is heaven and
lack of fellowship is hell; fellowship is life and
lack of fellowship is death; and the .deeds that
ye do upon the earth, it is for fellowship's sake
that ye do them.
William Morris—Dream of John Ball. Ch.
IV.
Vulgus amicitias utilitate probat.
The vulgar herd estimate friendship by its
advantages.
X)vm—Epistol(e Ex Panto. II. 3. 8.
Scilicet ut fulvum spectatur in ignibus aurum
Tempore in duro est inspicienda fides.
As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the
faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.
Ovid—Tristium. I. 5. 25.
