Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1910-02-18
FRIENDS.

FRIENDS.
OF friends however humble .scorn
not one.
The friends Of our friends are our
friends.
Friends, like mules, fail us at hard
passes.
True friends have no solitary joys
or sorrows.
Fortune makes friends. Misfortune
tries them.
Neither procure nor part with
friends in haste.
A needles eye is wide enough for
two friends
True friends appear less moved
than counterfeit. y
Friends and flowers &e charming
while they last.
Fire and water are not more neces-
sary than friends.
Nothing shows one who his friends
are like prosperity.
Summer friends vapish when the
cask is drained to the dregs.
If you would have friends, first
learn to do without them.
Defend me from my friends. / can
defend myself from my enemies.
The worst of all countries is the
one in which l have no friends.
Be blind to the failings OF your
friends, but not to their vices.
Friends are like fiddle strings; they
must not be drawn too taught
Friends are the thermometer b
which we may Judge the temperature
of our fortunes.
We talk of choosing friends, but
friends are self elected.
True happiness consists not in the
multitude of friends, but in the worth
and choice.
When going up the hill of prosper
ity, may you never meet your fnends
coimng down.
Friends are those who are willing
to bear with us in all our faults and
failngs.
1t is well that there is not one with
out a fault, for he would have no
friends in the world.
So live with thy friend that if he
becomes thy enemy he can do thee
no harm.
Thy friend has a friend, and thy
friends friend has a friend. So be
discreet.
Happy is he who finds a friend
Without that second self one lives
but half a life.
If YOU would not have your enemy
know your secret, tell it not to your
friend.
Whoever knows how to return a
kindness he has received must be
frienl above all price.
We know the value of a fortune
when we have gained it, and that OF
friend when we have lost it.
1-etever the number Of mans
friends, there will be times in his life
when he has none too many.
True friends visit us in prosperity
only when invited, but in adversely
they come without invitation.
Behave always toward your friends
with as much politeness and dellcacl
as you did in the early stages o.
your friendship.
We can never wish for too mucf
haupiness for our friends, for it hap
pens that some of it is always spilled
before it reaches them.
We do not appreciate our friends
until they are gone. When we BIZ
them farewell, then, indeed, we begil
to keep them company.
Sweet is the memory of departed
friends. Like the mellow rays OF tn
declining sun, it falls tenderly an
vet steadily on the heart.
II i better to decide a ditferenc
between enemies than friends; 10
one friend will certainly become a
enemy. while one Of our enemies WI
become a friend.
Experience teaches that the onl
friends we can call our own, who ca
have no change, are those over whoI
the grave has closed. The seal
death is the seal of friendship.
We take care of our health; we Ia
I'D money; we make our roof tlgh
and our clothing sufficient, but VIII
provides wisely that he shall not D
wanting in the best property OF al
friends.
To love friend with all his faults
to associate with the good in order I
be good. to work in order to rest, I
do right in spite of consequences an
good irrespective of persons ina