TO be only an admirer is not to be a friend of a human being. Human nature wants something more, and our perceptions are diseased when we dress up a human being in the attributes of divinity. He is our friend who loves more than admires us, and would aid us in our great work.

-Channing.

TRUE, active, productive friendship consists in keeping equal pace in life, in the approval of my aims by my friend, while I approve his, and thus moving forward together steadily, however much our way of thought and life may vary. Goethe.

✦ THE man, that comforts a desponding friend

With words alone, does nothing. He's a

friend

Indeed, who proves himself a friend in

need.

-Plautus.

THE making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.

-Hale.

TRUTHFULNESS, frankness, disinterestedness, and faithfulness are the qualities absolutely essential to friendship, and these must be crowned by a sympathy that enters into all the joys, the sorrows and the interests of the friend; that delights in all his upward progress, and when he stumbles or falls, stretches out the helping hand, and is tender and patient even when it condemns.

-Ware.

THE expensiveness of friendship does not lie in what one does for one's friends, but in what, out of regard for them, one leaves undone.

-Ibsen.

THERE are three friendships which are advantageous, and three which are injurious. Friendship with the upright; friendship with the sincere; and friendship with the man of observation: these are advantageous. Friendship with the man of specious airs; friendship with the insinuatingly soft; and friendship with the glib-tongued: these are injurious.

-Confucius.

THE tree withereth

Which stands in the courtyard

Without shelter of bark or of leaf.

So is a man

Destitute of friends.

Why should he live on?

-The Hava-mal.

THERE is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship, and indeed, friendship itself is but a part of virtue.

-Pope.

THE mind never unbends itself so agreeably as in the conversation of a wellchosen friend. There is indeed no blessing of life that is any way comparable to the enjoyment of a discreet and virtuous friend. It eases and unloads the mind, clears and improves the understanding, engenders thoughts and knowledge, animates virtue and good resolutions, soothes and allays the passions, and finds employment for most of the vacant hours of life. -Addison.

THE best way to represent to life the manifold use of friendship is to cast and see how many things there are which a man cannot do himself; and then it will appear that it was a sparing speech of the ancients to say "that a friend is another himself."

-Bacon.

THE conversation of a friend bright

ens the eyes.

-Persian Proverb.

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THOSE who want friends to open themselves unto, are cannibals of their own hearts. But one thing is most admirable, which is, that this communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects; for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth grief in halfs. For there is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his griefs to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

-Bacon.

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THERE is no better medicine for grief than the advice of a good and honored friend. He who, in his sufferings, excites and tries to soothe his mind by wine, though he may have pleasure for a moment, has a double portion of pain afterwards.

-Euripides.

TIME draweth wrinkles in a fair face, but addeth fresh colors to a fast friend.

-Lyle.