For Friendship's Sake ...: Emerson, Lubbock, Bacon, EtcDodge publishing Company, 1900 - 90 pages |
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1817 SCIENTIA VERITAS acquaintance adage affections affinity affirm most truly Agrippa ARTES 1817 SCIENTIA beast beautiful natures Borrowings-A Cæsar chills like east Cicero CIRCUMSPICE RECEIVED companionship conversation cymbal cynicism deal more kindness descend to meet divine Emerson eternal evanescent EXCHANGE FROM University false family is bathed fear feel flower and aroma fortune fruit of friendship gifts give graceful hast hath honor Iago ideal friend Jesus less lives Lord Lord's LUBBOCK man's mind mutual ness never noble panion passion pessimism Plautianus Plutarch poetry Pompey quires relation saith SCIENTIA VERITAS LIBRARY second fruit selfishness servants ship of Christ sincere social society solitude to want soul speak spirit stranger strict sublime hope cheers sure Sylla talk tempests thee things thou art Tiberius tion trust truth UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN unto virtues want true friends warmly rejoice Western Ontario 598 winds the world wise
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Page 78 - But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Page 85 - ... certain it is, that whosoever hath his mind fraught with many thoughts, his wits and understanding do clarify and break up in the communicating and discoursing with another...
Page 50 - Magna civitas, magna solitudo; because in a great town friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship for the most part which is in less neighbourhoods. But we may go further and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends, without which the world is but a wilderness...
Page 18 - The valiant warrior famoused for fight, After a hundred victories, once foiled, Is from the book of honor razed quite, And all the rest forgot for which he toiled.
Page 32 - It suffices me. It is a spiritual gift, worthy of him to give and of me to receive. It profanes nobody.
Page 79 - 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 87 - ... for our case; but the best receipt (best I say to work and best to take) is the admonition of a friend. It is a strange thing to behold what gross errors and extreme absurdities many (especially of the greater sort...
Page 77 - IT had been hard for him that spake it to have put more truth and untruth together in few words than in that speech : Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
Page 84 - I will conclude this first fruit of friendship), which is, that this communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects; for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in halves : 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 29 - I hate, where I looked for a manly furtherance, or at least a manly resistance, to find a mush of concession. Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.