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FRIENDSHIP
FRUITS
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Quod tuum'st meum'st ; omne meum est autem tuum.

What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

PlautusTrinummus. II. 2. 47.


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 What ill-starr'd rage
Divides a friendship long confirm'd by age?
 | author = Pope
 | work = Dunciad.
 | place = Bk. III. L. 173.
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 | text = There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship; and indeed friendship itself
is only a part of virtue.
 | author = Pope
 | work = Johnson's Lives of the Poets; Life of Pope.
 | topic = Friendship
 | page = 303
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 | text = <poem>Idem velle et idem nolle ea demum firma amicitia est.
To desire the same things and to reject the
same things, constitutes true friendship.
Sallust—Catalina. XX. From Cataline's Oration to his Associates.


Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in
their lives, and in their death they were not divided.
II Samuel. I. 23.


Amicitia semper prodest, amor etiam aliquando nocet.
Friendship always benefits; love sometimes
injures.
Seneca—Epistolw Ad Lucilium. XXXV.


Most friendship is feigning.
As You Like It. Song. Act II. Sc.7. L. 181.


Out upon this half-fac'd fellowship!
Henry IV. Pt. I. Act I. Sc. 3. L. 208.


Call you that backing of your friends? A
plague upon such backing! give me them that
will face me.
Henry IV. Pt. I. Act II. Sc. 4. L. 165.
 When did friendship take
A breed for barren metal of his friend?
Merchant of Venice. Act I. Sc. 3. L. 134.


Friendship is constant in all other things,
Save in the office and affairs of love:
Therefore, all hearts in love use their own tongues ;
Let every eye negotiate for itself,
And trust no agent.
Much. Ado About Nothing. Act II. Sc. 1. L.
182.


Friendship's full of dregs.
Tirrum of Athens. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 240.


The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily untie.
Troilus and Cressida. Act II. Sc. 3. L. 110.


Madam, I have been looking for a person who
disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal
friendship.
Sydney Smith—Lady Holland's Memoir. P.
257. Let us swear an eternal friendship.
Poetry of the AntirJacobin. The Rovers.
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Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To
love, and to be loved, is the greatest happiness
of existence.
Sydney Smith—Of Friendship. Lady Holland's Memoir.


I thought you and he were hand-in-glove.
Swift—Polite Conversation. Dialogue II.


Friendship is like rivers, and the strand of
seas, and the air, common to all the world; but
tyrants, and evil customs, wars, and want of
love, have made them proper and peculiar.
Jeremy Taylor—A Discourse of the Nature,
Measures, and Offices of Friendship.


Nature and religion are the bands of friendship, excellence and usefulness are its great endearments.
Jeremy Taylor—A Discourse of the Nature,
Measures, and Offices of Friendship.


Some friendships are made by nature, some
by contract, some by interest, and some by souls.
Jeremy Taylor—A Discourse of the Nature,
Measures, and Offices of Friendship.


O friendship, equal-poised control,
O heart, with kindliest motion warm,
O sacred essence, other form,
O solemn ghost, O crowned soul!
 | author = Tennyson
 | work = In Memoriam. LXXXV.


True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and
must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.
George Washington—Social Maxims.


Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new

  • * * is neither strong nor pure.

Young—Night Thoughts. Night II. L. 582.

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{{Hoyt quote
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 | text = <poem>The kindly fruits of the earth.
Book of Common Prayer. Litany.


Nothing great is produced suddenly, since not
even the grape or the fig is. If you say to me
now that you want a fig, I will answer to you
that it requires time: let it flower first, then put
forth fruit, and then ripen.
Epictetus—Discourses. What Philosophy
Promises. Ch. XV. Geo. Long's trans
 
Eve, with her basket, was
Deep in the bells and grass
Wading in bells and grass
Up to her knees,
Picking a dish of sweet
Berries and plums to eat,
Down in the bells and grass
Under the trees.
Ralph Hodgson—Eve.


Ye shall know them by their fruits.
Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of
thistles?
Matthew. VII. 16; 20.