Sayings about friendship; with some reflections thereon. An unphilosophical essay, by the author of 'What my thoughts are'.1864 |
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accept affection Angélique Désilles antitype assertion beauty believe blessed brother Chapter charity Charlotte Brontë Christ Christian counterfeit Damon and Pythias dear death deny disciple distinct doubt earth enduring esteem eternal Eugénie de Guérin exist faithful friend father feeling felt fidelity forget fruits of friendship gift give grace grief happy hath heart heaven highest hope human individual infatuation instance Isaac Taylor Jeremy Collier Jesus knit less live look Lord Lord Bacon love our friends Lysis mind mutual nature ness never ourselves Owen Feltham passion perfect perhaps Plato platonic Plautianus pleasure possible Princess de Lamballe proof proved Pylades rare reality SAYINGS ABOUT FRIENDSHIP says Jeremy Taylor secret self-interest self-love sense separation ship sincerity Sirach sister soul of Jonathan speak spirit sweet sympathy tenderest thee thine things Thomas à Kempis thou thought tion trial true friend true friendship truly trust truth unto weak woman women words
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Page 31 - And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.
Page 24 - 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. So that it is, in truth of operation upon a man's mind, of like virtue...
Page 139 - Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat ? Nevertheless we.
Page 101 - A faithful friend is the medicine of life; and they that fear the Lord shall find him. Whoso feareth the Lord shall direct his friendship aright; for as he is, so shall his neighbour (that is, his friend) be also.
Page 80 - It soon becomes a very small part of that profound and complicated sentiment, which we call Love, which is rather the universal thirst for a communion not merely of the senses, but of our whole nature, intellectual, imaginative and sensitive...
Page 22 - If thou wouldst get a friend, prove him first, and be not hasty to credit him. For some man is a friend for his own occasion, and will not abide in the day of thy trouble.
Page 23 - Tully was the first who observed, that friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and dividing of our grief...
Page 22 - ... trouble. And there is a friend who being turned to enmity and strife, will discover thy reproach.' Again, * Some friend is a companion at the table, and will not continue in the day of thy affliction : but in thy prosperity he will be as thyself, and will be bold over thy servants.
Page 70 - Woe, yet not long — she lingered but to trace Thine image from the image in her breast, Once, once again to see that buried face But smile upon her, ere she went to rest. Too sad a smile ! its living light was o'er — It answered hers no more. ' The earth grew silent when thy voice departed, The home too lonely whence thy step had fled — What then was left for her, the faithful-hearted ? — Death, death, to still the yearning for the dead.
Page 100 - God : and he that does a base thing in zeal for his friend, burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together ; it is a conspiracy, but no longer friendship.