From Me to You: A Gift of Friendly Thoughts |
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adversity borrower brave brother comrade DAY for toil death deeds doth earth Edward Bulwer-Lytton Edwin Osgood Grover Ella Wheeler Wilcox enemy faith in friendship faithful friend friend's best Friendly Thoughts friends are better friendship consists friendship is rare G Henry George Gift of Friendly give H. C. Trumbull happiness HATEVER the number hath heart heartiest Heaven Henry Churchill King Henry van Dyke honor hour for sport James Whitcomb Riley Jeremy Taylor John Gay keep lack of fellowship life's live Lord man's friends mutual never old friend old friendships old wine Oliver Wendell Holmes one's other's ourselves prosperity Proverb Ralph Waldo Emerson real friends rich Richard Hovey Robert Louis Stevenson sacred seeks soul strong sweet thee There's open house thing thou thy friend true friend true friendship trust warm Wheeler Wilcox William Hazlitt William Rader Winter word
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Page 13 - But if Fortune once do frown, Then farewell his great renown ; They that fawn'd on him before Use his company no more. He that is thy friend indeed, He will help thee in thy need : If thou sorrow, he will weep ; If thou wake, he cannot sleep ; Thus of every grief in heart He with thee doth bear a part. These are certain signs to know Faithful friend from flattering foe.
Page 39 - Rejoice, and men will seek you; Grieve, and they turn and go. They want full measure of all your pleasure, But they do not need your woe. Be glad, and your friends are many; Be sad, and you lose them all,— There are none to decline your nectared wine, But alone you must drink life's gall.
Page 37 - THE EPITAPH Here rests his head upon the lap of earth A youth to fortune and to fame unknown: Fair science frowned not on his humble birth, And melancholy marked him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, . Heaven did a recompense as largely send: He gave to misery all he had, a tear: He gained from heaven ('twas all he wished) a friend.
Page 21 - I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.
Page 12 - 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, .
Page 52 - Let me live in a house by the side of the road, Where the race of men go by — The men who are good and the men who are bad, As good and as bad as I.
Page 42 - To be honest, to be kind — to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not be embittered, to keep a few friends but these without capitulation — above all, on the same grim condition, to keep friends with himself — here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy.
Page 18 - I would be true, for there are those who trust me ; I would be pure, for there are those who care; I would be strong, for there is much to suffer; I would be brave, for there is much to dare. I would be friend...
Page 10 - RUDDY drop of manly blood The surging sea outweighs ; The world uncertain comes and goes, The lover rooted stays. I fancied he was fled, And, after many a year, Glowed unexhausted kindliness Like daily sunrise there.
Page 38 - 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...