Great souls by instinct to each other turn,
Demand alliance, and in friendship burn.
b. ADDISON--The Campaign. Line 102.
The friendships of the world are oft
Confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasure;
Ours has severest virtue for its basis,
And such a friendship ends not but with
life.

C. ADDISON--Cato. Act III. Sc. 1.

The friendship between me and you I will not compare to a chain; for that the rains might rust, or the falling tree might break. d. BANCROFT-- History of the United States. Wm. Penn's Treaty with the Indians.

Friendship! mysterious cement of the soul! Sweet'ner of life! and solder of society! BLAIR--The Grave.

e.

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There are three friendships which are advantageous, and three which are injurious. Friendship with the upright; friendship with the sincere; and friendship with the man of observation; these are advantageous. Friendship with the man of specious airs; friendship with the insinuatingly soft; and friendship with the glib-tongued: these are injurious.

0. CONFUCIUS-Analects. Ch. III. True friends appear less mov'd than counterfeit.

p. WENTWORTH DILLON (Earl of Roscommon)-Horace. Of the Art of Poetry. Line 486. Literary friendship is a sympathy not of manners, but of feelings.

q. ISAAC DISRAELI-Literary Characters. Ch. XIX.

Friendship, of itself an holy tie,
Is made more sacred by adversity.
g'. DRYDEN-The Hind and the Panther.
Pt. III. Line 47.
Friendships begin with liking or grati
tude-roots that can be pulled up.

S. GEORGE ELIOT- Daniel Deronda.
Bk. IV. Ch. XXXII.

So, if I live or die to serve my friend,
'Tis for my love,-'tis for my friend alone,
And not for any rate that friendship bears
In heaven or on earth.

COLERIDGE-Youth and Age

True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. C. C. COLTON-Lacon.

EMERSON Essay. Of Friendship.

The highest compact we can make with our fellow, is, Let there be truth between us two forevermore. It is sublime to feel and say of another, I need never meet, or speak, or write to him; we need not reinforce ourselves, or send tokens of remembrance; I rely on him as on myself; if he did thus or thus, I know it was right.

2.

EMERSON-Behavior.

Friendship, peculiar boon of heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given,

To all the lower world denied.

N.

SAM'L JOHNSON-Friendship. An Ode.

Come back! ye friendships long departed!
That like o'erflowing streamlets started,
And now are dwindled, one by one,
To stony channels in the sun!

Come back! ye friends, whose lives are ended,
Come back, with all that light attended,
Which seemed to darken and decay
When ye arose and went away!

0. LONGFELLOW-Christus. The Golden Legend. Pt. I.

You will forgive me, I hope, for the sake of the friendship between us,

Which is too true and too sacred to be so easily broken!

p.

LONGFELLOW-The Courtship of Miles Standish. Pt. VI.

Haste, ere the sinner shall expire!
Of all his guilt let him be shriven,
And smooth his path from earth to heaven!
b. SCOTT-Lay of the Last Minstrel.
Canto Y,

St. 22. And, father cardinal, I have heard you say, That we shall see and know our friends in heaven,

If that be true, I shall see my boy again; For, since the birth of Cain, the first male child,

To him that did but yesterday suspire, There was not such a gracious creature born.

C.

d.

King John. Act III. Sc. 4.

Ay, but to die and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot. Measure for Measure. Act III. Sc. 1. God (if Thy will be so), Enrich the time to come with smooth-faced

Who would fardels bear,

To grunt and sweat under a weary life;
But that the dread of something after death,"
The undiscover'd country, from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will;
And makes us rather bear those ills we have,
Than fly to others, that we know not of?
f. Hamlet. Act III. Sc. 1.

What a world were this
How unendurable its weight, if they
Whom Death hath sundered did not meet
again!

g. SOUTHEY- Inscription XVII. Epitaph. The glories of the Possible are ours. h. BAYARD TAYLOR -The Picture of St. John. Bk. II. St. 71.

The great world's altar-stairs That slope thro' darkness up to God. i. TENNYSON-In Memoriam. Pt. LIV.

Happy he whose inward ear

Angel comfortings can hear,

O'er the rabble's laughter;

And, while Hatred's fagots burn,
Glimpses through the smoke discern
Of the good hereafter.

j.

WHITTIER— Barclay of Ury.

A time there is, like a thrice-told tale, Long-rifled life of sweet can yield no more. k. YOUNG-Night Thoughts. Night IV.

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