The Wealth of FriendshipA book of quotations on the various kinds and forms of friendship selected chiefly from the works of well-known American, European and classical authors. |
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... better neighbor ? Now , above all things , where was his equal as a companion , A true friend unbosoms freely , advises justly , assists readily , adventures boldly , takes all patiently , defends courageously , and continues a friend ...
... better neighbor ? Now , above all things , where was his equal as a companion , A true friend unbosoms freely , advises justly , assists readily , adventures boldly , takes all patiently , defends courageously , and continues a friend ...
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... better friend he is to have . In many cases of friendship , or what passes for it , the old axiom is reversed , and like clings to unlike more than to like . Make me to love my feller - man Yea , though his bitterness Doth bite as only ...
... better friend he is to have . In many cases of friendship , or what passes for it , the old axiom is reversed , and like clings to unlike more than to like . Make me to love my feller - man Yea , though his bitterness Doth bite as only ...
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... better to have friends than suspi- cions . Cultivate friendliness , for it is the seed of friendship . The prime requisite in a good friend is the habit of good impulses . Have friends of your own trade that shop- talk may make you ...
... better to have friends than suspi- cions . Cultivate friendliness , for it is the seed of friendship . The prime requisite in a good friend is the habit of good impulses . Have friends of your own trade that shop- talk may make you ...
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... better in the keeping of a friend than in thine own . There is no virtue in a man that does not make him a better friend ; no vice that does not make him worse . It is a wise man who shares his reading . with those he loves , since the ...
... better in the keeping of a friend than in thine own . There is no virtue in a man that does not make him a better friend ; no vice that does not make him worse . It is a wise man who shares his reading . with those he loves , since the ...
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... better self ? Love your friend with his foible . Take to your heart no friend whose affec- tion requires proof ; proof implies doubt , and where doubt is , love is not . Rejoice in all the honors which come to those you know . That you ...
... better self ? Love your friend with his foible . Take to your heart no friend whose affec- tion requires proof ; proof implies doubt , and where doubt is , love is not . Rejoice in all the honors which come to those you know . That you ...
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Other editions - View all
The Wealth of Friendship: With a Homily on Friendship (Classic Reprint) Wallace Rice No preview available - 2017 |
WEALTH OF FRIENDSHIP Wallace 1859-1939 Rice,Frank Wakeley 1856-1921 Gunsaulus,Frances Rice No preview available - 2016 |
The Wealth of Friendship Frank Wakeley Gunsaulus,Wallace Rice,Frances Rice No preview available - 2016 |
Common terms and phrases
acquaintance affection Alexan Alfred Tennyson Author Unknown Bacon Of Friend better blessing Burns Cicero On Friend companion dear death divine earth Edward Eliza Cook enemy Eugénie de Guérin faithful friend father feel forever Francis Bacon Frank friendly George give hand happiness hath heart heaven Henry David Thoreau Honoré de Balzac human ideal immortal infinite James Russell Lowell Jeremy Taylor Jesus John kind live Lord Avebury Lord Byron lost man's ne'er never old familiar faces old friends Oliver Wendell Holmes Orestes and Pylades Percy Bysshe Shelley pher Bannister Pope Proverb Pylades Ralph Waldo Emerson rare Robert Louis Steven Saul saulus The Rev Shake ship slain smile soul speare sweet tender thee Theodore Munger thine thing Thomas Jefferson Thomas Moore thou shalt thought thy friend tion true friend True friendship unto William Alger woman words
Popular passages
Page 105 - Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you ; that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven : for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
Page 199 - Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.
Page 105 - Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you...
Page 174 - Ghost-like I paced round the haunts of my childhood. Earth seemed a desert I was bound to traverse, Seeking to find the old familiar faces. Friend of my bosom, thou more than a brother, Why wert not thou born in my father's dwelling? So might we talk of the old familiar faces...
Page 76 - I shall pass through this world but once. Any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
Page 166 - For there is no man that imparteth his joys to his friend, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his griefs to his friend, but he grieveth the less.
Page 139 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Page 169 - A principal fruit of friendship is the ease and discharge of the fulness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce. We know diseases of stoppings and suffocations are the most dangerous in the body; and it is not much otherwise in the mind...
Page 130 - To pain — it shall not be its slave. There is many a pang to pursue me : They may crush, but they shall not contemn — They may torture, but shall not subdue me — Tis of thee that I think, not of them.
Page 174 - THE OLD FAMILIAR FACES. I HAVE had playmates, I have had companions, In my days of childhood, in my joyful school-days, All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. I have been laughing, I have been carousing, Drinking late, sitting late, with my bosom cronies, All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.