Part 6 (1/2)
Friends.h.i.+p maketh a fair day in the affections, from storm and tempest; but it maketh daylight in the understanding, out of darkness and confusion of thoughts.
_Bacon_
He who will not to friends' advice attend; Must not complain when they him reprehend.
_Saadi_
There is no such flatterer as is a man's self, and there is no such remedy against flattery of a man's self as the liberty of a friend.
_Bacon_
Let flattery, however, the bond-maid of vices, be far removed from friends.h.i.+p, since it is not only unworthy of a friend, but of a free man.
_Cicero_
How were friends.h.i.+p possible? In mutual devotedness to the Good and True: otherwise impossible, except as armed neutrality or hollow commercial league. A man, be the heavens ever praised, is sufficient for himself; yet were ten men, united in love, capable of being and of doing what ten thousand singly would fail in. Infinite is the help man can yield to man.
_Carlyle_
A real friend is one who will tell you of your faults and follies in prosperity, and a.s.sist you with his hand and heart in adversity.
_Horace Smith_
There be three sorts of friends: the first is like a torch we meet in a dark street; the second is like a candle in a lanthorn that we overtake; the third is like a link that offers itself to the stumbling pa.s.senger. The met torch is the sweet-lipped friend, which lends us a flash of compliment for the time, but quickly leaves us to our former darkness. The over-taken lanthorn is the true friend, which, though it promise but a faint light, yet it goes along with us as far as it can to our journey's end. The offered link is the mercenary friend, which though it be ready enough to do us service, yet that service hath a servile relation to our bounty.
_Quarles_
That which is most beneficent is also most excellent; and therefore those friends.h.i.+ps must needs be most perfect where the friends can be most useful.
_Jeremy Taylor_
I would not live without the love of my friends.
_Keats_
Every man has frequent grievances which only the solicitude of friends.h.i.+p will discover and remedy, and which would remain forever unheeded in the mighty heap of human calamity, were it only surveyed by the eye of general benevolence equally attractive to every misery.
_Samuel Johnson_
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.
_Bacon_
Devotion of Friends.h.i.+p