 Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.  Speech and Scrap Book for Speakers - Page 2671924 - 304 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Frank Van Buren Irish - 1888 - 136 pages
...WASHINGTON. Speak not ill of the absent; it is unjust. Commerce and industry are the best mines of a nation. Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distresses of every one. To persevere is one's duty, and to be silent is the best answer to calumny. Show not yourself glad... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 720 pages
...Friendship is the marriage of the soul. 1937 Voltaire : A Philosophical Dictionary. Friendship. Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those...adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. 1938 George Washington : Letter, Newbnrgh, Jan. 15, 1783. To Buslirod H'ashinnton. The friendship I... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 724 pages
...marriage of the soul. 1937 Voltaire : A Philosophical Dictionary. Friendship. Be courteous to all, hut intimate with few, and let those few be well tried...adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. 1938 Geor9e Washin9ton : Letter, Newburgh, Jan. 15, 1783. To Bushrod Washin9ton, The friendship I have... | |
 | 1889 - 934 pages
...Spreading and growing till life and its light pass away. h. MICHAEL Vrncovu-s -Low and Friendship. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must...adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation. i. GEO. WASHINGTON— Social Maxims. Friendship. The surest bulwark against evil is that of friendship.... | |
 | William M. Thayer - 1890 - 542 pages
...from him than the title." " Knowledge is, in every country, the surest basis of public happiness." " True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must...adversity before it is entitled to the appellation." " To share the common lot, and participate in conveniences which the army, from the peculiarity of... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson, Mrs. Ellen Mackay Hutchinson Cortissoz - 1894 - 592 pages
...indiscretions, which very often they involuntarily lead one into, prove equally distressing and disgraceful. Be courteous to all, but intimate with few ; and let...for the afflictions and distresses of every one, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse ; remembering always the estimation of the widow's mite,... | |
 | George Washington - 1894 - 510 pages
...most placid mildness and condescension. JM SEW ALL, Portsmouth, NU Dec. 81, 1799. SOCIAL COURTESY. Be courteous to all, but intimate with few ; and let...well tried, before you give them your confidence. Every action in company, ought to be with some sign of respect to those present. COMPANY. SHAKING OFF... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 pages
...Dread more the blunderer's friendship than the calumniator's enmitv. — Laeater. True friendship is n plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand...the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the ap]>cllation. Washington. Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy... | |
 | Louise Manly - 1895 - 564 pages
...indiscretions, which very often they involuntarily lead one into, prove equally distressing and disgraceful. Be courteous to all, but intimate with few ; and let...entitled to the appellation. Let your heart feel for the distresses and afflictions of every one, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse; remembering... | |
 | Louise Manly - 1895 - 554 pages
...indiscretions, which very often they involuntarily lead one into, prove equally distressing and disgraceful. Be courteous to all, but intimate with few ; and let...entitled to the appellation. Let your heart feel for the distresses and afflictions of every one, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse; remembering... | |
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