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 298 FRIENDS FRIENDS

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = He cast off his friends, as a huntsman his pack; For he knew, when he pleas'd, he could whistle them back. | author = Goldsmith | work = Retaliation. L. 107. Dear lost companions of my tuneful art, Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes, Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart. Gray—The Bard. St. 3. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Julius Cesar. II. 1) | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = A favourite has no friend. Gray—On a Favourite Cat Drowned. St. 6. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Friends | page = 298 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = We never know the true value of friends. While they live, we are too sensitive of their faults; when we have lost them, we only see their virtues. J. C. and A. W. Hare—Guesses at Truth. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Friends | page = 298 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Devout, yet cheerful; pious, not austere; To others lenient, to himself sincere. J. M. Harvey—On a Friend. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Pope, Rogers) Before you make a friend eat a bushel of salt with him. | author = Herbert | work = Jaada Prudentum. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Friends | page = 298 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = For my boyhood's friend hath fallen, the pillar of my trust, The true, the wise, the beautiful, is sleeping in the dust. Htllard—On Death of Motley. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspir'd. Homer—Iliad. Bk. XVI. L. 267 | note = {{sc|Pope}}'s trans. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Bellinghausen}} under {{sc|Love}}) | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Dulcis inexpertis cultura potentis amici; Expertus metuit. To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it. Horace—Epistles. I. 18. 86. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Friends | page = 298 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = True friends appear less mov'd than counterfeit. Horace—Of the Art of Poetry. L. 486. Wentworth Dillon's trans. u The new is older than the old; And newest friend is oldest friend in this: That, waiting him, we longest grieved to miss One thing we sought. | author = Helen Hunt Jackson | work = My New Friend. True happiness Consists not in the multitude of friends, But in the worth and choice. Nor would I have Virtue a popular regard pursue: Let them be good that love me, though but few. Ben Jonson—Cynthia's Beads. Act III. Sc. 2. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Friends | page = 298 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = 'Tis sweet, as year by year we lose Friends out of sight, in faith to muse How grows in Paradise our store. Keble—Burial of the Dead. St. 11. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Friends | page = 298 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = One faithful Friend is enough for a man's self, 'tis much to meet with such an one, yet we can't have too many for the sake of others. La Bruyère—The Characters or Manners of the Present Age. Ch. V. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Friends | page = 298 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Friend of my bosom, thou more than a brother, Why wert not thou born in my father's dwelling? Lamb—The Old Familiar Faces. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Friends | page = 298 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me. Lincoln—Reply to Missouri Committee of Seventy'. (1864) | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = O friend! O best of friends! Thy absence more Than the impending night darkens the landscape o'er! | author = Longfellow | work = Christus. Pt. II. The Golden Legend. I. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Friends | page = 298 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = 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! | author = Longfellow | work = Courtship of Miles Standish. Pt. VI. PriscMa. L. 72. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Friends | page = 298 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Alas! to-day I would give everything To see a friend's face, or hear a voice That had the slightest tone of comfort in it. | author = Longfellow | work = Judas Maccabceus. Act IV. Sc. 3. L. 32. My designs and labors And aspirations are my only friends. | author = Longfellow | work = Masque of Pandora. Tower of Prometheus on Mount Caucasus. Pt. III. L.. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Friends | page = 298 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend. | author = Longfellow | work = New England Tragedies. John Endieott. Act IV. Sc. 1. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Friends | page = 298 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Quien te conseja encobria de tus amigos. Enganar te quiere assaz, y sin testigos. He who advises you to be reserved to your friends wishes to betray you without witnesses. Manuel Conde Lucanor. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Friends | page = 298 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Let the falling out of friends b§ a renewing of affection. | author = Lyly | work = Euphues. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Burton}} under {{sc|Love)