endship, and a friendship as rare as it is
precious.

697

Henceforth there shall be no other contention betwixt you and me, than
which shall outdo the other in point of friendship.

698

Cultivate your neighbor's friendship; he needs you and you need him.

699

Friendship often ends in love;
But love, in friendship
--Never.

700

Renewed friendships require more care than those that have never been
broken.

--_Rochefoucauld._

701

_Need for making Acquaintance._--If a man does not make new
acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself
left alone. A man should keep his friendship _in constant repair_.

--_Sam'l Johnson._

702

Suspicion kills friendship.

--_Hugh Black._

703

Who friendship with a knave hath made,
Is judg'd a partner in the trade.

704

What need of years, long years, to prove
The sense of friendship, or of love!

705

There is truly nothing purer and warmer than our first friendship, our
first love.

--_Jean Paul Richter._

706

The permanency of most friendships depends upon the continuity of good
fortune.

707

Quickly made friendships, are often eagerly and quickly ended.

708

FRIENDSHIP--RARITY OF.

Rare is true love: true friendship is still rarer.

--_Rochefoucauld._

709

Real friendship is like a sheltering tree.

710

He is my friend that helps me, and not he that pities me.

711

Friendship has a power
To soothe affliction in her darkest hour.

--_H. Kirke White._

712

O summer friendship,
Whose flattering leaves, that shadow'd us in
Our prosperity, with the least gust drop off
In th' autumn of adversity!

--_Massinger._

713

THE HIGHER FRIENDSHIP.

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 friendship 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 allevia