FriendshipF.H. Revell Company, 1898 - 237 pages |
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affection apostasy Aristotle beauty becomes blessed Book of Proverbs brings brother cerned character choice of friendship Christ Christian comes common communion culture of friendship cynical death deeper DEUTERONOMY duty ECLIPSE OF FRIENDSHIP elective affinity evil experience eyes faith faithless feeling fruits of friendship gain gift give glory grief hath heart heaven HIGHER FRIENDSHIP highest hollow heart human friendship instinct intercourse intimacy keep ligion LIMITS OF FRIENDSHIP lives look loss love and trust Lycidas means ment mind miracle of friendship moral mystery nature ness never noble occasion offence ourselves peace personal equation portunity possible relationship religion seems selfish sense sentiment separate ship social sometimes sorrow soul speak spiritual spite strong city sweet sympathy tender thee things thou thought tion touch true friendship trust truth ultimate fact union ural wonder word wreck of friendship
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Page 20 - I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan; very pleasant hast thou been to me; thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.
Page 155 - For it was not an enemy that reproached me ; Then I could have borne it : Neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me ; Then I would have hid myself from him : But it was thou, a man mine equal, My guide, and mine acquaintance. We took sweet counsel together, And walked unto the house of God in company.
Page 155 - Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.
Page 110 - Bitter constraint and sad occasion dear Compels me to disturb your season due; For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer.
Page 52 - The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel, But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledged comrade.
Page 136 - But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining They stood aloof, the scars remaining, Like cliffs, which had been rent asunder; A dreary sea now flows between; But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder, Shall wholly do away, I ween, The marks of that which once hath been.
Page 38 - Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.
Page 209 - Square: Though we called your friend from his bed this night, he could not speak for you, For the race is run by one and one and never by two and two.
Page 108 - That is the doctrine, simple, ancient, true; Such is life's trial, as old earth smiles and knows If you loved only what were worth your love, Love were clear gain, and wholly well for you: Make the low nature better by your throes! Give earth yourself, go up for gain above!
Page 74 - ... certain it is that whosoever hath his mind fraught with many thoughts, his wits and understanding do clarify and break up in the communicating and discoursing with another:, he tosseth his thoughts more easily; he marshalleth them more orderly; he seeth how they look when they are turned into words; finally, he waxeth wiser than himself, and that more by an hour's discourse than by a day's meditation.