FREE.

WHO IS.
Who then is free? The wise man who
Horace.
can command himself.

He is the freeman whom the truth makes
Cowper.

free.

FREEDOM.

Sun of the moral world! effulgent source Of man's best wisdom and his steadiest force,

EXCELLENCE of.

Better to dwell in Freedom's hall,

With a cold damp floor and mouldering
wall,

Than bow the head and bend the knee
In the proudest palace of slaverie. Moore.
NECESSITY OF.

To have freedom, is only to have that which is absolutely necessary to enable us to be what we ought to be, and to possess Rehel.

So searching Freedom! here assume the what we ought to possess. stand

And radiate hence to every distant land.

BATTLE OF.

PLACE FOR, THE.

Freedom's soil hata only place
For a free and fearless race!

Joel Barlow.

POWER OF.

Freedom's battle once begun Bequeath'd from bleeding sire to son Though baffled oft, is ever won. CHARACTERISTICS OF.

Byron.

What art thou Freedom? Oh could slaves
Answer from their living graves
This demand, tyrants would flee
Like a dim dream's imagery!
Thou art Justice-ne er for gold
May thy righteous laws be sold,
As laws are in England: thou
Shield'st alike high and low.
Thou art Peace-never by thee
Would blood and treasure wasted be
As tyrants wasted them when all
Leagued to quench thy flame in Gaul!
Thou art Love: the rich have kist
Thy feet and like him following Christ
Given their substance to be free
And through the world have followed thee.
Shelley.

Pray you use your freedom, and so far, if it please you, allow me mine to hear you, only not to be compelled to take your moral potions. Massinger.

DESIRE FOR, THE.

Whittier.

God made thee perfect, not immutable,
And good He made thee, but to persevere
He left it in thy pow'r; ordain'd thy will
By nature free, not over-ruled by fate
Inextricable, or strict necessity.
Each had his conscience, each his reason,
will,

Milton.

And understanding for himself to search; Slaves, who once conceived the glowing To choose, reject, believe, consider, act;

thought

Of freedom, in that hope itself possess
All that the contest calls for;-spirit,
strength,

The scorn of danger, and united hearts,
The surest presage of the good they seek.
Wordsworth.

And God proclaim'd from heaven, and by an oath

Confirm'd, that each should answer for him.
self;

And as his own peculiar work should be
Done by his proper self, should live or die.
Pollok.

RESPONSIBILITY.

Faultless thou dropt from his unerring skill With the base power to sin, since free of will;

IMPRUDENT, AN.

Nothing is more dangerous than an imprudent friend; it is better to deal with a prudent enemy. La Fontaine.

Yet charge not with thy guilt his bounteous INJURED, AN. love ;

rove.

For who has power to walk, has power to
Aburthnot.
Grace leads the right way; if you choose

What spectre can the charnel send
So dreadful as an injur'd friend? Scott.
LOSS OF A.

To lose a friend is the greatest of all losses.
Syrus.

MELANCHOLY, A.

Make not a bosom friend of a melancholy soul; he'll be sure to aggravate thy adversity and lessen thy prosperity. He goes always heavily loaded, and thou must bear half. He is never in a good humor, and may easily get into a bad one, and fall out

A friend is gold, if true, he'll never leave thee;

Eternal blessings crown my earliest friend,
And round his dwelling guardian saints at-Yet both, without a touchstone, may de-

Thou may'st be sure that he that will in ❘ MAKING.
private tell thee of thy faults, is thy friend,
for he adventures thy dislike, and doth
hazard thy hatred; for there are few men
that can endure it, every man for the most
part delighting in self-praise, which is one
of the most universal follies that bewitcheth
mankind.
Sir Walter Raleigh.

VALUE OF A.
Poor is the friendless master of a world:
A world in purchase of a friend is gain.

Young. For to cast away a virtuous friend, I call as bad as to cast away one's own life, which one loves best. Sophocles.

CHOICE OF.

FRIENDS.

Acquaintance I would have, but when't depends

Not on the number, but the choice of friends. Cowley. There is nothing more becoming any wise man, than to make choice of friends, for by them thou shalt be judged as thou art; let them therefore be wise and virtuous, and none of those that follow thee for gain; but make election rather of thy betters, than thy inferiors, shunning always such as are needy; for if thou givest twenty gifts, and refuse to do the like but once, all that thou hast done will be lost, and such men will become thy mortal enemies.

SHOULD BE FEW.

Sir Walter Raleigh.
True happiness

Consists not in the multitude of friends,
But in the worth and choice; nor would I
have

Virtue a popular regard pursue:

Let them be good that love me, though but few.

GIVEN BY HEAVEN.

scene;

Jonson.

Heaven gives us friends to bless the present

It is better to decide between our enemies than our friends; for one of our friends will most likely become our enemy; but on the other hand, one of your enemies will probably become your friend. Bias. MANY.

He who hath many friends, hath none.
Aristotle.

MEMORY OF.

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart. Washington Irving.

Old.

We learn our virtues from the bosom friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real form from a friend. He is a mirror on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflec

tion.

WANT OF.

Richter.

He that has no friend and no enemy is one of the vulgar, and without talents, Lavater.

That hath not here its end. Montgomery. | vower, or energy.

swans,

Two lovely berries moulded on one stem:
So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart. Still we went coupled, and inseparable.

COMPOSITION OF.

Shakespeare.

ESTEEM INCREASED.

Shakespeare

There is perhaps no time at which we are

Scott.

when we find him standing higher than we
expected in the esteem of others.
ETERNITY, IMAGE OF.

Friendship is compounded of all those soft ingredients which can insinuate them-disposed to think so highly of a friend, as selves and slide insensibly into the nature and temper of men of the most different constitutions, as well as of those strong and active spirits which can make their way into perverse and obstinate dispositions; and because discretion is always predominant in it, it works and prevails least upon fools. Wicked men are often reformed by it, weak Friendship above all ties doth bind the

men seldom.

CONSTANCY OF.

Clarendon.

Friendship is constant in all other things,
Save in the office and affairs of love.
Shakespeare.

CONTRACTS OF.
Friendship contracted with the wicked
decreases from hour to hour, like the early

Friendship's the image of
Eternity, in which there is nothing
Moveable.

FAITH IN.

heart,

Lilly.

And faith in friendship is the noblest part.
Earl of Orrery.

FALSE.

False friendship, like the ivy, decays the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports. Burton.

JUDGMENT IN FORMING.
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
death.

Young.

Friendship's the privilege

Of private men; for wretched greatness
knows

No blessing so substantial.
QUALITIES OF.

Tate.

Friendship hath the skill and observation of the best physician, the diligence and vig. ilance of the best nurse, and the tenderness

and patience of the best mother.
RARITY OF.

Lord Clarendon.

O friendship! of all things the because Most rare, and therefore most rare, most

Excellent; whose comforts in misery Are always sweet, whose counsels in True friendship's laws are by this rule ex- Prosperity are ever fortunate.

LAWS OF.

pressed, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.

GOOD MAN, of a.

Pope.

A good man is the best friend, and therefore soonest to be chosen, longest to be retained, and indeed never to be parted with, unless he ceases to be that for which he is chosen. Jeremy Taylor.

SHOW, A.

Lilly.

You'll find the friendships of the world a