690 A gift kept back where it was hoped, often separateth chief friends. 691 Strange to say,--I am the only one of my friends I can rely upon. --_Terence._ 692 There is no living without friends. --_Portuguese._ 693 True friends anticipate each other's wants. 694 Friends are sometimes like mushrooms, they spring up in out-of-the-way places. 695 At the gate of abundance there are many brothers and friends; at the gate of misfortune there is neither brother nor friend. 696 It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell a man of his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see the stain of sin upon him, and to go to him alone and speak painful truths in touching, tender words,--that is friendship, and a friendship as rare as it is precious. 697 Henceforth there shall be no other contention betwixt you and me, than which shall outdo the other in point of friendship. 698 Cultivate your neighbor's friendship; he needs you and you need him. 699 Friendship often ends in love; But love, in friendship --Never. 700 Renewed friendships require more care than those that have never been broken. --_Rochefoucauld._ 701 _Need for making Acquaintance._--If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man should keep his friendship _in constant repair_. --_Sam'l Johnson._ 702 Suspicion kills friendship. --_Hugh Black._ 703 Who friendship with a knave hath made, Is judg'd a partner in the trade. 704 What need of years, long years, to prove The sense of friendship, or of love! 705 There is truly nothing purer and warmer than our first friendship, our first love. --_Jean Paul Richter._ 706 The permanency of most friendships depends upon the continuity of good fortune. 707 Quickly made friendships, are often eagerly and quickly ended. 708 FRIENDSHIP--RARITY OF. Rare is true love: true friendship is still rarer. --_Rochefoucauld._ 709 Real friendship is like a sheltering tree. 710 He is my friend that helps me, and not he that pities me. 711 Friendship has a power To soothe affliction in her darkest hour. --_H. Kirke White._ 712 O summer friendship, Whose flattering leaves, that shadow'd us in Our prosperity, with the least gust drop off In th' autumn of adversity! --_Massinger._ 713 THE HIGHER FRIENDSHIP. Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.