| English poetry - 1904 - 774 pages
...apt to die? Reserve will wound it; and distrust, destroy Deliberate in all things with thy friend, But since friends grow not thick on every bough. Nor...deliberate with thyself, Pause, ponder, sift ; not eager in the choice, Nor jealous of the chosen ; fixing, fix ; Judge before friendship, then confide till death.... | |
| Motilal M. Munshi - 1904 - 562 pages
...friends in haste, nor hastily part with them, when procured. Deliberate on all things with thy friend : But since friends grow not thick on every bough, Nor...deliberate with thyself; Pause, ponder, sift, not eager in the choice ; Judge before friendship, then confide till death ; A friend is worth all hazards we can... | |
| John Vance Cheney, Sir Charles G. D. Roberts, Charles Francis Richardson, Francis Hovey Stoddard, John Raymond Howard - English poetry - 1904 - 538 pages
...apt to die? Reserve will wound it ; and distrust, destroy Deliberate in all things with thy friend, But since friends grow not thick on every bough. Nor every friend imrotten at the core; First, on thy friend, deliberate with thyself, Pause, ponder, sift; not eager... | |
| Adeline M. Butterworth - Didactic poetry, English - 1911 - 104 pages
...apt to die ? Reserve will wound it, and distrust destroy : Deliberate on all things with thy friend : But since friends grow not thick on every bough, Nor...deliberate with thyself; Pause, ponder, sift ; not eager in the choice, Nor jealous of the chosen, fixing fix : Judge before friendship, then confide till death... | |
| Joshua Edwin Wills - Baltimore (Md.) - 1911 - 108 pages
...begging to finish the house. In this place the half cannot be told. I found, as Young describes it, that 'Friends grow not thick on every bough, nor every friend unrotten at the core.' My tribulation lasted about ten years, which frequently impressed me with thoughts of moving to the... | |
| Henry George Bohn, Anna Lydia Ward - Quotations - 1911 - 784 pages
...88 The deepest hunger of a faithful heart Is faithfulness. 1850 George Eliot : Spanish Gypsy. Bk. v First on thy friend deliberate with thyself; Pause, ponder, sift ; not eager in the choice, Nor jealous of the chosen : fixing, fix ; — Judge before friendship, then confide till... | |
| Henry Clay Trumbull - Friendship - 1912 - 424 pages
...distrusted is before he is a friend. Thus Young counsels : " Deliberate on all things with thy friend. But, since friends grow not thick on every bough,...deliberate with thyself; Pause, ponder, sift ; not eager in the choice, Nor jealous of the chosen ; fixing, fix. , , Judge before friendship, then confide till... | |
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