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Friendship

Friendship


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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: "If you have a friend worth loving, love him. Yes, and let him know that you love him ere life's evening tinge his brow with sunset glow. Why should good words ne'er be said of a friend 'till he is dead?" " Good books, like intimate friends, should be few, but well chosen. chapter{Section 4OF FRIENDSHIP. It had been hard for him that spake it to have put more truth and untruth together in few words than in that speech: "Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god." For it is most true that a natural and secret hatred and aversation towards society, in any man, hath somewhat of the savage beast; but it is most untrue that it should have any character at all of the divine nature, except it proceed, not out of a pleasure in solitude, but out of a love and desire to sequester a man's self for a higher conversation, such as is found to have been falsely and feignedly in some of the heathen, as Epimenides the Candian, Numa the Roman, Empedocles the Sicilian, and Apollonius of Tyana; and truly and really in divers of the ancient hermits and holy fathers of the Church. But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how ' far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love. The Latin adage meeteth with ( it a little: Magna civitas, magna solitudo; because in a great town friends are scattered, so that.there is not that fellowship for the most part which is in less neighbor- A great city is a great solitude. hoods. But we may go further, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends, without which the world is but a wilderness; and even in this sense also of solitude, whosoever in the frame of his nature and affections is unf...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781589639850
  • Publisher: Fredonia Books (NL)
  • Publisher Imprint: Fredonia Books (NL)
  • Height: 203 mm
  • No of Pages: 116
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 159 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1589639855
  • Publisher Date: 05 Sep 2002
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 7 mm
  • Width: 127 mm


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