For Friendship's Sake: Essays on FriendshipDodge Pub. Company, 1900 - 90 pages |
Common terms and phrases
acquaintance adage affections affinity affirm most truly Agrippa beast beautiful better Borrowings-A Cæsar chills like east companionship conversation cymbal cynicism day's meditation deal more kindness divine dreams and fables Emerson equal evanescent false family is bathed fear feel flower fortune fruit of friendship gifts give giveth graceful hast hath honor human Iago ideal friend Jesus less lives Lord Lord's LUBBOCK maketh man's marshalleth meet in houses mind mutual nature ness never noble panion passions pessimism Plautianus pleasures of animals Plutarch poetry Pompey princes quires relation saith second fruit selfishness servants ship of Christ sincere social society solitude to want soul speak spirit stand stranger strict sublime hope cheers Sylla sympathy talk tempests thee things thou thoughts more easily Tiberius tion tosseth his thoughts trust truth unto virtues want true friends warmly rejoice waxeth wiser winds the world wise wish worth
Popular passages
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 90 - Men have their time, and die many times in desire of some things which they principally take to heart; the bestowing of a child, the finishing of a work, or the like. If a man have a true friend, he may rest almost secure that the care of those things will continue after him.
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 25 - The end of friendship is a commerce the most strict and homely that can be joined; more strict than any of which we have experience. It is for aid and comfort through all the relations and passages of life and death. It is fit for serene days, and graceful gifts, and country rambles, but also for rough roads and hard fare, shipwreck, poverty, and persecution.
Page 77 - Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god : '' for it is most true, that a natural and secret hatred and aversion towards society in any man hath somewhat of the savage beast ; but it is most untrue that it should have any character at all of the divine nature, except it proceed, not out of a pleasure in solitude, but out of a love and desire to sequester a man's self for a higher conversation : such...