From Friend to Friend: A Partnership in FriendshipP. F. Volland & Company, 1916 - 64 pages |
Common terms and phrases
Addison anchorage angel art thou beauty believe better Budgell Bulwer-Lytton BUSINESS OF FRIENDSHIP character Cicero clasp day I found dear divine doth earth Emerson enemies Euripides faithful friend fate Friend to Friend friendless friendship and love friendship lies gifts give gold golden thread grief hand happy heart heaven Heigho hold his friend human friend human friendships inspiration joy of companionship keep kindly Larcom Life's lives lonely Longfellow look love of comrades love sometimes loyal friend loyalty Mabie Markham may-be Moore Munger name of friend never old friend one's P. F. VOLLAND PARTNERSHIP IN FRIENDSHIP precious rate per cent real friendship rich rosary seek Shakespeare ship smile sorrow soul stand steadfast Strode strong sweet sweetest tempests blow Tennyson TH HEY things thoughts thy friend tried and true true friends TRUE friendship trust VOLLAND & CO Warm Whitman Whittier wind
Popular passages
Page 32 - For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.
Page 60 - Come, I will make the continent indissoluble, I will make the most splendid race the sun ever shone upon, I will make divine magnetic lands, With the love of comrades, With the life-long love of comrades.
Page 28 - Many will say it is a dream, and will not follow my inferences; but I confidently expect a time when there will be seen, running like a half-hid warp through all the myriad audible and visible worldly interests of America, threads of manly friendship, fond and loving, pure and sweet, strong and life-long, carried to degrees hitherto unknown...
Page 27 - gainst time or fate, For, lo! my own shall come to me. I stay my haste, I make delays, For what avails this eager pace? I stand amid the eternal ways, And what is mine shall know my face. Asleep, awake, by night or day, The friends I seek are seeking me; No wind can drive my bark astray, Nor change the tide of destiny.
Page 22 - Shall I ask the brave soldier, who fights by my side In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree ? Shall I give up the friend I have valued and tried, If he kneel not before the same altar with me...
Page 30 - SMALL service is true service while it lasts : Of humblest Friends, bright Creature ! scorn not one : The Daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dew-drop from the Sun.
Page 46 - The laws of friendship are austere and eternal, of one web with the laws of nature and of morals. But we have aimed at a swift and petty benefit, to suck a sudden sweetness. We snatch at the slowest fruit in the whole garden of God, which many summers and many winters must ripen.
Page 62 - OF THE TERRIBLE DOUBT OF APPEARANCES. OF the terrible doubt of appearances, Of the uncertainty after all, that we may be deluded, That may-be reliance and hope are but speculations after all, That may-be identity beyond the grave is a beautiful fable only, May-be the things I perceive, the animals, plants, men, hills, shining and flowing waters, The skies of day and night, colors, densities, forms, may-be these are (as doubtless they are) only apparitions, and the real something has yet to be known...
Page 62 - When he whom I love travels with me or sits a long while holding me by the hand, When the subtle air, the impalpable, the sense that words and reason hold not, surround us and pervade us, Then I am charged with untold and untellable wisdom, I am silent, I require nothing further, I cannot answer the question of appearances or that of identity beyond the grave, But I walk or sit indifferent, I am satisfied, He ahold of my hand has completely satisfied me.
Page 53 - I'VE often wish'd that I had clear For life, six hundred pounds a year, A handsome house to lodge a friend, A river at my garden's end, A terrace walk, and half a rood Of land, set out to plant a wood.