Friends -------------------------------------------------------------------- Sections (TOC) : ---------------------------------- * 1 61 Words; 351 Characters * 2 22 Words; 143 Characters * 3 119 Words; 715 Characters * 4 16 Words; 101 Characters * 5 35 Words; 176 Characters * 6 117 Words; 722 Characters * 7 27 Words; 149 Characters * 8 49 Words; 257 Characters * 9 25 Words; 132 Characters * 10 22 Words; 130 Characters * 11 25 Words; 133 Characters * 12 63 Words; 368 Characters Sections (Content) : ---------------------------------- * 1 ...you may take sarza to open the liver, steel to open the spleen, flowers of sulfur for the lungs, castoreum for the brain; but no receipt openeth the heart, but a true friend; to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes, suspicions, counsels, and whatsoever lieth upon the heart to oppress it, in a kind of civil shrift or confession. * 2 ...this communicating of a man's self to his friend, works two contrary effects; for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in halves. * 3 For friendship maketh indeed a fair day in the affections, from storm and tempests; but it maketh daylight in the understanding, out of darkness, and confusion of thoughts. Neither is this to be understood only of faithful counsel, which a man receiveth from his friend; but before you come to that, certain it is, that whosoever hath his mind fraught with many thoughts, his wits and understanding do clarify and break up, in the communicating and discoursing with another; he tosseth his thoughts more easily; he marshalleth them more orderly, he seeth how they look when they are turned into words: finally, he waxeth wiser than himself; and that more by an hour's discourse, than by a day's meditation. * 4 ...the best preservative to keep the mind in health, is the faithful admonition of a friend. * 5 If a man have a true friend, he may rest almost secure that the care of those things will continue after him. So that a man hath, as it were, two lives in his desires. * 6 It is demonstrated, that the association of ideas is the cement which unites the fabric of the human intellect, without which pleasure and pain would be simple and ineffectual sensations. The vulgar, that is, all men who have no general ideas or universal principles, act in consequence of the most immediate and familiar associations; but the more remote and complex only present themselves to the minds of those who are passionately attached to a single object, or to those of greater understanding, who have acquired an habit of rapidly comparing together a number of objects, and of forming a conclusion; and the result, that is, the action in consequence, by these means becomes less dangerous and uncertain. * 7 Who would fight with a friend? A man who challenges those who have welcome him in a strange land is worthless and a fool; he spites himself. * 8 I have done every thing of consequence which I ever meant to do, and I could at no time expect to leave my relations and friends in a better situation than that in which I am now likely to leave them; I, therefore, have all reason to die contented. * 9 What on earth would we Unusuals do, in this lonely dream of life if it were not for the sympathy and friendship of the Few? * 10 ...to sell out your friends and sit rubbing your hands while they are destroyed is not the last word in political wisdom. * 11 What on earth would we Unusuals do, in this lonely dream of life, if it were not for the sympathy and friendship of the Few? * 12 I love men too -- not merely individuals, but every one. But I love them with the consciousness of egoism; I love them because love makes me happy, I love because loving is natural to me, because it pleases me. I know no "commandment of love." I have a fellow-feeling with every feeling being, and their torment torments, their refreshment refreshes me too... Events : ---------------------------------- Friends -- Added : March 12, 2020 About This Textfile : ---------------------------------- Text file generated from : http://RevoltSource.com/