Life and Literature Part 51

711

Friends.h.i.+p has a power To soothe affliction in her darkest hour.

--_H. Kirke White._

712

O summer friends.h.i.+p, Whose flattering leaves, that shadow'd us in Our prosperity, with the least gust drop off In th' autumn of adversity!

--_Ma.s.singer._

713

THE HIGHER FRIENDs.h.i.+P.

Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

--_Thomas A'Kempis._

714

True friends.h.i.+p is one of the greatest blessings upon earth; it makes the cares and anxieties of life sit easy; provides us with a partner in every affliction to alleviate the burthen, and is a sure resort against every accident and difficulty that can happen.

715

True friends.h.i.+p is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

--_Colton._

716

Those who speak always and those who never speak, are equally unfit for friends.h.i.+p.

717

He who never gives advice, and he who never takes it are alike unworthy of friends.h.i.+p.

718

He who is worthy of friends.h.i.+p at all will remember in his prosperity those who were his friends in his adversity.

719

Value the friends.h.i.+p of him who stands by you in a storm; swarms of insects will surround you in the suns.h.i.+ne.

720

No matter how poor and mean a man is, his friends.h.i.+p is worth more than his hate.

721

Good fruit never comes from a bad tree.

--_Portuguese._

722

There is nothing like fun, is there? I haven't any myself, but I do like it in others.

--_Haliburton._

723

_Groping for the Door._--O door, so close, yet so far off!

--_Miss Mulock._

724

If you would have your name chime melodiously in the ears of future days, cultivate faith, and not doubt, giving unto every man credit for the good he does, and never attribute base motives to beautiful acts.

--_Unknown._

725

_Future_:--The future does not come from before to meet us, but comes streaming up from behind over our heads.

--_Rahel._

726

_Future--to be met without Fear_:--Look not mournfully into the past,--it comes not back again; wisely improve the present,--it is thine; go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear, and with a manly heart.

--_Longfellow._