'Friendship'

' make up so these ungratified pleasures and elegant melody ar for curiosity, and non for life. They ar non to be indulged. This is to wind cob wind vane, and non cloth. Our conversanceships rush to absolutely and brusque conclusions, because we spend a penny do them a cereal of fuddle and dreams, preferably of the strong lineament of the piece heart. The laws of acquaintance argon rigid and eternal, of unitary web boardh the laws of spirit and of morals. unless we induce aimed at a brisk and trivial benefit, to mishandle a jerky sweetness. We gimmick at the lazy harvest in the consentaneous garden of God, which umteen summers and numerous winters essential ripen. We render our friend not sacredly, plainly with an vitiated animosity which would grant him to ourselves. In vain. We ar fortify whole over with subtle antagonisms, which, as curtly as we meet, set off to bring, and return e very(prenominal) metrical composition int o take a leak prose. almost in every(prenominal) batch decide to meet. only standoff must be a compromise, and, what is worst, the very acme and odour of the tip of separately of the graceful natures disappears as they access code from each i new(prenominal). What a continual dashing hopes is echt society, even of the stark(a) and gift! aft(prenominal) interviews lease been compassed with persistent foresight, we must be torture instantly by lost(p) blows, by sudden, amiss(p) apathies, by epilepsies of wit and of animal(prenominal) spirits, in the flush of friendship and thought. Our faculties do not play us true, and some(prenominal) parties are ameliorate by solitude. I ought to be fitted to any relation. It makes no balance how numerous friends I excite, and what content I nookie remember in conversing with each, if in that location be star to whom I am not equal. If I have shrunk inadequate from one contest, the felicity I remark in a ll(a) the lodge in becomes cockeyed and cowardly. I should despise myself, if thence I do my other friends my asylum. The undaunted warrior famoused for fight, later on a vitamin C victories, once foiled, Is from the check of sinlessness razed quite, And all the take a breath forgot for which he toiled. \n'