Whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received, must be a friend above all price.

i. BUCKLEY'S Sophocles. Philoctetes.

Ah! were I sever'd from thy side, Where were thy friend, and who my guide? Years have not seen --Time shall not see The hour that tears my soul from thee. j. BYRON--The Bride of Abydos. Canto I. St. 11. 'Twas sung, how they were lovely in their lives,

And in their death had not divided been. k. CAMPBELL--Gertrude of Wyoming.

Pt. III. St. 33.

Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe; Bold I can meet --perhaps may turn his blow; But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send,

Save, save, oh! save me from the candid friend. 1. GEORGE CANNING--New Morality.

Our friends early appear to us as representatives of certain ideas, which they never pass or exceed. They stand on the brink of the ocean of thought and power, but they never take a single step that would bring them there.

ƒ. EMERSON-Essay. Of Experience. The only way to have a friend is to be one. g. EMERSON-Essay. Of Friendship.

Take the advice of a faithful friend, and submit thy inventions to his censure. h.

FULLER-The Holy and Profane States.
Fancy.

v.

Act IV. Sc. 3.

My designs and labors And aspirations are my only friends. LONGFELLOW-The Masque of

Pandora. Pt. III.

Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship

Let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest!

There is no man so friendless but what he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths.

a. BULWER-LYTTON- What Will He Do With It? Bk. II. Ch. XIV.

Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many. ს.

BULWER-LYTTON- What Will He Do
With It? Bk. IX. Ch. III.

As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book or a friend.

As we sail through life towards death,
Bound unto the same port-heaven,-
Friend, what years could us divide?
f. D. M. MULOCK-Thirty Years.
A Christmas Blessing.

If grief thy steps attend,

If want, if sickness be thy lot, And thou require a soothing friend, Forget me not! forget me not!

g. Mrs. OPIE-The Orphan Boy's Tale.

All are friends in heaven, all faithful friends;
And many friendships in the days of time
Begun, are lasting here, and growing still.
h. POLLOK-Course of Time. Bk. V.

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Friends given by God in mercy and in love;
My counsellors, my comforters, and guides;
My joy in grief, my second bliss in joy;
Companions of my young desires; in doubt,
My oracles; my wings in high pursuit.
Oh! I remember, and will ne'er forget,
Our meeting spots, our chosen sacred hours;
Our burning words, that utter'd all the soul,
Our faces beaming with unearthly love;
Sorrow with sorrow sighing, hope with hope
Exalting, heart embracing heart entire.
i. POLLOK-Course of Time. Bk. V.
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Sweeter none than voice of faithful friend; Sweet always, sweetest heard in loudest

SCHILLER-- Votive Tablets. Friend and Foe.

A friend should bear his friend's infirmities, But Brutus makes mine greater than they

I am not of that feather, to shake off
My friend when he must need me. I do

know him

A gentleman, that well deserves a help, Which he shall have: I pay the debt, and free him.

u. Timon of Athens. Act I. Sc. 1.

I would be friends with you, and have your love.

V. Merchant of Venice. Act I. Sc. 3.

Comedy of Errors. Act V. Sc. 1.

We still have slept together,
Rose at an instant, learn'd, play'd, eat to-
gether;

And whereso'er we went, like Juno's swans,
Still we went coupled, and inseparable.
As You Like It. Act I.

e.

Sc. 3.

Where you are liberal of your loves and counsels,

Be sure you be not loose; for those you make friends

And give your hearts to, when they once perceive

The least rub in your fortunes, fall away
Like water from ye, never found again
But where they mean to sink ye.

j. Henry VIII. Act II. Sc. 1.

Who not needs shall never lack a friend;
And who in want a hollow friend doth try,
Directly seasons him his enemy.
Hamlet. Act III. Sc. 2.

J.
O my friend!
We twain have met like the ships upon the

Friends to whom you are in debt, you hate. WYCHERLY-The Plain Dealer.

S.

Prologue.

We rejoice in the joy of our friends as much as we do in our own, and we are Wherefore equally grieved at their sorrows. the wise man will feel towards his friend as he does towards himself, and whatever labour he would encounter with a view to his own pleasure, he will encounter also for the sake of that of his friend.

t.

YONGE'S Cicero. De Finibus.

You must therefore love me, myself, and not my circumstances, if we are to be real friends. YONGE'S Cicero. De Finibus.

и.

A foe to God was ne'er true friend to man,
Some sinister intent taints all he does.
YOUNG-Night Thoughts. Night VIII.

v.

A friend is worth all hazards we YOUNG--Night Thoughts.

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