Friendship. — Colton.

AN act, by which we make one Friend and one Enemy, is a losing game; because Revenge is a much stronger principle than Gratitude.

Friendship. Sir Walter Raleigh. THOU mayst be sure that he that will in private tell thee of thy faults, is thy Friend, for he adventures thy dislike, and doth hazard thy hatred; for there are few men that can endure it, every man for the most part delighting in self-praise, which is one of the most universal follies that bewitcheth Mankind.

Friendship. Young.

CELESTIAL Happiness! Whene'er she stoops
To visit earth, one shrine the Goddess finds,
And one alone, to make her sweet amends
For absent heaven,—the bosom of a Friend,
Where Heart meets Heart,

Each other's pillow to repose divine.

Friendship. — Sir Walter Raleigh. THERE is nothing more becoming any wise man, than to make choice of Friends, for by them thou shalt be judged what thou art: let them therefore be wise and virtuous, and none of those that follow thee for gain; but make election rather of thy betters, than thy inferiors, shunning always such as are needy; for if thou givest twenty gifts, and refuse to do the like but once, all that thou hast done will be lost, and such men will become thy mortal enemies.

Friendship. Sir Philip Sidney. THE lightsome countenance of a Friend giveth such an inward decking to the house where it lodgeth, as proudest palaces have cause to envy the gilding.

Friendship.- Shakspeare.

BY Heaven, I cannot flatter: I defy

The tongues of soothers; but a braver place
In my Heart's Love hath no man than yourself;
Nay, task me to my word; approve me.

LET Friendship creep gently to a height; if it rush to it, it may soon run itself out of breath.

Friendship. — Johnson.

IF a man does not make new Acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man should keep his Friendship in constant repair.

Friendship. — Goldsmith.

THERE are few subjects which have been more written upon, and less understood, than that of friendship. To follow the dictates of some, this virtue, instead of being the assuager of pain, becomes the source of every inconvenience. Such speculatists, by expecting too much from Friendship, dissolve the connection, and by drawing the bands too closely, at length break them.

Friendship. - Sir William Temple.

SOMETHING like home that is not home, like alone that is not alone, is to be wished, and only found in a Friend, or in his

house.

Friendship. — Shakspeare.

IN Companions

That do converse and waste the time together,
Whose Souls do bear an equal Yoke of Love,
There must be needs a like proportion

Of lineaments, of manners, and of spirit.
Friendship. Chesterfield.

REAL Friendship is a slow grower; and never thrives, unless engrafted upon a stock of known and reciprocal Merit. Friendship.-La Rochefoucauld.

RARE as is true Love, true Friendship is still rarer.
Friendship. — Hawkesworth.

FEW men are calculated for that close connection which we distinguish by the appellation of Friendship: the Acquaintance is in a post of progression; and after having passed through a course of proper experience, and given sufficient evidence of his merit, takes a new title.

Friendship. — Shakspeare.

GIVE thy thoughts no tongue,

Nor any unproportion'd thought his act.
Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.
The Friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hooks of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new-hatch'd, unfledged comrade.

Friendship. Chesterfield.

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THOSE who in the common course of the world will call themselves your Friends; or whom, according to the common notions of Friendship, you may probably think such, will never tell your faults, still less of your weaknesses. But on the contrary, more desirous to make you their Friend than to prove themselves yours, they will flatter both, and, in truth, not be sorry for either.

Friendship. - Catherine Phillips.

ESSENTIAL honour must be in a friend,

Not such as every breath fans to and fro;

But born within, is its own judge and end,

And dares not sin, though sure that none should know.
Where Friendship's spoke, Honesty's understood;

For none can be a Friend that is not good.

Friendship. Shakspeare.

No longer mourn for me when I am deaa
Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell
Give warning to the world that I am filed
From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell:
Nay, if you read this line, remember not

The Hand that writ it; for I love you so,
That I in your sweet Thoughts would be forgot,
If thinking on me then should make you wo.
Oh if (I say) you look upon this verse,

When I perhaps compounded am with clay,
Do not so much as my poor name rehearse;

But let your Love even with my life decay:
Lest the wise world should look into your moan,
And mock you with me after I am gone.

Friendship.- La Fontaine.

NOTHING more dangerous than a Friend without discretion; even a prudent Enemy is preferable.

Friendship. — From the Latin.

OF no worldly good can the enjoyment be perfect, unless it is shared by a Friend.

Friendship. Hazlitt.

THE youth of Friendship is better than its old age.

Friendship. Fuller.

MAKE not thy Friends too cheap to thee, nor thyself to thy

Friend.

Friendship. Shakspeare.

BRUTUS hath rived my heart:

A Friend should bear his Friend's infirmities,
But Brutus makes mine greater than they are
Friendship.- Havard.

I HAVE too deeply read Mankind

To be amused with Friendship; 'tis a name
Invented merely to betray credulity:

'Tis intercourse of Interest-not of Souls.

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Friendship. — Clarendon.

FRIENDSHIP is compounded of all those soft ingredients which can insinuate themselves and slide insensibly into the nature and temper of men of the most different constitutions, as well as of those strong and active spirits which can make their way into perverse and obstinate dispositions; and because Discretion is always predominant in it, it works and prevails least upon Fools. Wicked men are often reformed by it, weak men seldom.

Friendship. — Fuller.

PURCHASE not Friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.

Friendship.- Savage.

YOU'LL find the Friendship of the World a show!
Mere outward show! 'Tis like the harlot's tears,
The statesman's promise, or false patriot's zeal,
Full of fair seeming, but delusion all.

Friendship. — Addison.

THE Friendships of the World are oft
Confed'racies in vice, or leagues of pleasure.

Friendship.

Trap.

FRIENDSHIP must be accompanied with Virtue,
And always lodged in great and gen'rous Minds.
Friendship. — Blair.

FRIENDSHIP! mysterious cement of the Soul!
Sweet'ner of Life and solder of Society!

I owe thee much. Thou hast deserved of me
Far, far beyond what I can ever pay.

Oft have I proved the labours of thy Love,
And the warm efforts of the gentle Heart
Anxious to please.

Friendship. - Spenser.

NE, certes can that Friendship long endure,
However gay and goodly be the style,
That doth ill cause or evill end enure,

For Vertue is the band that bindeth Harts most sure
Friendship. — Lee.

In their nonage, a sympathy

Unusual join'd their Loves:

They pair'd like Turtles; still together drank,
Together eat, nor quarrell'd for the choice.

Like twining Streams both from one Fountain fell,
And as they ran still mingled smiles and tears.

Friendship. —Addison.

GREAT Souls by instinct to each other turn,
Demand Alliance, and in Friendship burn.

Friendship.-Dryden.

I CAN forgive

A Foe, but not a Mistress, and a Friend:
Treason is there in its most horrid shape,
Where trust is greatest! and the Soul resign'd
Is stabb'd by her own guards.

Friendship. - Fuller.

MAKE not a Bosom Friend of a melancholy soul: he'll be sure to aggravate thy adversity, and lessen thy prosperity. He goes always heavy loaded; and thou must bear half. “He's never in a good humour; and may easily get into a bad one, and fall out with thee.

Frugality. - Burke.

FRUGALITY is founded on the principle, that all riches have

limits.

Frugality. — Johnson.

FRUGALITY may be termed the Daughter of Prudence, the Sister of Temperance, and the Parent of Liberty. He that is extravagant will quickly become Poor, and Poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption.

Frugality.— Cicero.

THE World has not yet learned the Riches of Frugality.

The Future. — Seneca.

THE state of that Man's Mind who feels too intense an interest as to Future Events, must be most deplorable.

Future State. — Addison.

WHY will any man be so impertinently officious as to tell me all prospect of a Future State is only fancy and delusion? Is there any merit in being the messenger of ill news? If it is a dream, let me enjoy it, since it makes me both the happier and better man.

Future State. - Cicero.

THERE is, I know not how, in the minds of men, a certain presage, as it were, of a Future Existence, and this takes the deepest root, and is most discoverable, in the greatest geniuses and most exalted souls.