The Wealth of Friendship (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 13 : 9780484115681
Total Pages : 220 pages
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Book Synopsis The Wealth of Friendship (Classic Reprint) by : Wallace Wallace

Download or read book The Wealth of Friendship (Classic Reprint) written by Wallace Wallace and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-19 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Wealth of Friendship All such words, taken like these - one from the real, the other from the ideal - will illustrate the fact that friendship worthy the name is founded on truth. If, as one poet sings, a friendship be streaked with colors of the ideal, it must be a true ideal, lest the friendship become a beautiful dream, which, however, ends in nightmare. Such an ideal there must be, else friendship can not be true. For with all the roots that every friendship has in the real world and with all the demands which every friend ship makes on the soil of practical life inwhich it is rooted, it is a sad lie if some where it blooms not. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Wealth of Friendship

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ISBN 13 : 9780266673637
Total Pages : 212 pages
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Download or read book The Wealth of Friendship written by Wallace Rice and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Wealth of Friendship: With a Homily on Friendship All friendship, like all life, has its growth between these realms. It spreads its arms and shoots forth its leaves in that air which is the interfiow of what is and what ought to be - the real and the idea]. It cannot separate itself from either. If my supposed friend imagines that he can cut loose from the world and human life as it is, and befriend me by dwelling altogether in what ought to be, he deceives him self, and I find him to be but the ghost of afriend. Absolute truthfulness to the fact that as matters really are, I have a body and its needs, temptations and desires that fasten themselves on the earth; that, being on the earth, I must have to do with citizen ship, politics, trade, marriage, home, and the reform of this world - this is the somber fact that marks the place where our friend ship must root itself. On the other hand, absolute truthfulness to the fact that as matters ideally ought to be, I am a soul able to climb up to God; full of potencies which it will take an eternity to unfold; that, being heaven-des tined, I have to do with beauty, divinity, ideality, and the atmosphere of pure spirit, - this is the luminous fact that marks the place where our friendship must pierce the soil of the limited and bounded, thence to rise unto its own fruitage in the limitless and the free. I grant that this latter realm must be the circumambient air in which the solid and prosaic earth, on which our friend ship roots itself, must roll. The ought to be must always be the boundless at mosphere of what is; and he who is thus true - to fasten with his thought my thought, to unite with his feeling my feel ing, to join with his will my will, unto these realms, the real and the ideal, is my friend. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Book of Friendship (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 13 : 9781331190769
Total Pages : 362 pages
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Book Synopsis The Book of Friendship (Classic Reprint) by : Samuel McChord Crothers

Download or read book The Book of Friendship (Classic Reprint) written by Samuel McChord Crothers and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Book of Friendship Shakespeare describes the way in which the essence of fleeting beauty is preserved. "For never-resting time leads summer on To hideous winter, and confounds him there: Sap checked with frost, and lusty leaves quite gone, Beauty o'ersnowed and bareness everywhere: Then were not summer's distillation left A liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass, Beauty's effect with beauty were bereft, Now it nor no remembrance what it was, But flowers distilled, though they with winter meet Leese but their show, their substance still lives sweet." A Book of Friendship is an attempt to collect some of these "flowers distilled" from the world's literature. As the generations pass, friends are separated. But theirs are expressions of feeling that are imperishable. The "substance still lives sweet." It is pleasant not only to know what wise men have thought about friendship, but how friendly souls have actually felt. There must be a vast variety in the incidents of friendships and a unity in its essential nature. No abstract or philosophical description can satisfy us in regard to an intimate personal experience which we all have felt. I can imagine a warm-hearted friend reading Emerson's Essay on Friendship, and wondering what it is all about. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

I Like You

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ISBN 13 : 9780547327884
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book I Like You written by Sandol Stoddard and published by Clarion Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover folds over to become postal mailer.

The Fortune

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Book Synopsis The Fortune by : Douglas Goldring

Download or read book The Fortune written by Douglas Goldring and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Fortune: A Romance of Friendship Dear G. H. B. I offer you this story not because I consider it a tribute of gratitude in any way worthy of a friend to whom I owe more than I shall ever be able to repay, but simply because, with all its defects, I hope you may discern in it a striving after Truth. No doubt the book will be dubbed by many elderly people as a mere pacificist tract masquerading under a thin disguise of fiction; but I do not think that you will so regard it. In writing The Fortune have tried to give a straightforward account of the spiritual adventures of an average intellectual in the first years of the war, and to show how the minds of persons of his age and temperament have become, almost inevitably, a battle-ground for opposing influences and conflicting ideals. I have purposely refrained from endowing my hero with any exceptional or heroic qualities. I suppose it will be agreed that his tragedy is that he is neither sheep nor goat, that he falls between two stools, and that he contrives successfully to make the worst of both worlds. It is the tragedy of how many thousands of old public-schoolboys who have taken part in the present conflict. Though the defects of this novel are entirely my own, it is but the bare truth to acknowledge that any saving qualities which it may possess are due principally to your unsparing criticism. As a critic whether of events, of books or of persons have never once known you allow your vision to be obscured either by sentiment or by passion. Even in that delirious August of 1914 you were never taken in for one moment by the clap-trap and the parrotcries of the Press. it will be along while before I forget the appalling atrocities committed by you on current humbug in those remote days! How scalding and ruthless your comments sounded then; how wickedly, how wilfully unfair! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Health, Wealth, and the Blessing of Friends (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 13 : 9780365248521
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Book Synopsis Health, Wealth, and the Blessing of Friends (Classic Reprint) by : John Lubbock

Download or read book Health, Wealth, and the Blessing of Friends (Classic Reprint) written by John Lubbock and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Health, Wealth, and the Blessing of Friends But if all are agreed as to the blessing of health, there are many who will not take the little trouble, or submit to the slight sacrifices, necessary to maintain it. Many, indeed, deliberately ruin their own health, and incur the certainty of an early grave, or an old age of suffering. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Faith of a Quaker (Classic Reprint)

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Total Pages : 468 pages
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Download or read book The Faith of a Quaker (Classic Reprint) written by John William Graham and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 2017-02-06 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Faith of a Quaker There arise also the insistent questions which beset all mystics, and which in Quakerism demanded a corporate, instead of an individual, answer. Was the light infallible? Was the claim to it an assumption of spiritual exaltation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The House of Friendship (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 13 : 9780484518314
Total Pages : 90 pages
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Download or read book The House of Friendship (Classic Reprint) written by Agnes Edwards and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-23 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The House of Friendship Why not enjoy our friends instead of trying to reform them? TO be sure, that household keeps outrageous hours, and you are morally certain that if they went to bed at ten o'clock and had breakfast at eight, instead of retiring at one O'clock and eating breakfast on their way to the front gate, they would be healthier and happier. So they would, but they will never do it for all your protestations. The best thing you can do is to see that your own family get to bed at ten, and accept the other family as they are. And maybe, some day, seeing how happy and healthy your family is, or wishing to please you because of their genuine affection, they will re form themselves. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Work and the Man (Classic Reprint)

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Total Pages : 229 pages
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Book Synopsis The Work and the Man (Classic Reprint) by : Agnes Rush Burr

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The Book of Friendship

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Friendship

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Book Synopsis Friendship by : Ouida Ouida

Download or read book Friendship written by Ouida Ouida and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-27 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Friendship: A Story So the carriage, bearing the Misses Moira, of Craig Moira, their plaids, pugs, ear-trumpets, and courier, continued its course across the Roman Campagna, and up the steep and wooded roads that led to the old Castle of Fiordelisa. The Misses Moira, of Moira, lived on their own lands in Caithness, were very rich, very ugly, very eccentric, spoke with a strong native accent, and delivered their opinions uncalled for; two of their sister's children were respectively the Duchess of Forfar and the Marquis of Fingal; the younger was the echo of the elder - both wore spectacles, both were deaf; and neither ever forgot that the Moiras, of Craig Moira, had the right to sit before their sovereign, and were allied with half the bluest blood and highest names in Great Britain. They were now about to call on one of their connections, and gazed anxiously through their spectacles for the Castle of Fior delisa, where she dwelt. Fiordelisa came at last in sight, a grey, rambling, and ancient pile, set amidst cypress and ilex woods, with its gardens straying down into its farm-lands in Italian fashion, covering hills and plains with corn and vine and olive. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

BOOK OF FRIENDSHIP

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ISBN 13 : 9781033921616
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The Gift of Friendship, and Other Verses (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 13 : 9780267606221
Total Pages : 34 pages
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Book Synopsis The Gift of Friendship, and Other Verses (Classic Reprint) by : Edwin Osgood Grover

Download or read book The Gift of Friendship, and Other Verses (Classic Reprint) written by Edwin Osgood Grover and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Gift of Friendship, and Other Verses HE greatest blessing that one can give another as he travels through life is the gift of friend ship to those whom he has learned to love. To have given others the assur ance and proof of one's friendship is to have lived profitably. To have received from others the pledge and evidence of their love is to have lived richly. And the man who has both given and received this blessing is rich indeed. These occasional verses have been written during a period of nearly twenty years to say frankly to a few friends a little of what their friendship has meant to me. If they have carried my message of gratitude to the hearts of those for whom they were written, they have fulfilled their first mission. If in this collected form they serve as mes sage bearers for others, I shall be glad to have shared them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

A Book of Cambridge Verse (Classic Reprint)

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Total Pages : 532 pages
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Download or read book A Book of Cambridge Verse (Classic Reprint) written by Ernest Edward Kellett and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 2016-11-23 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Book of Cambridge Verse Nevertheless, after all deductions have been made, how much true poetry is yet left! He must be hard to please who cannot find intense enjoyment in the Eclogues of Phineas Fletcher, in Cowley's epitaph on Harvey, in the Miltonic stanzas of Gray's Installation Ode, in a score of other pieces, grave, quaint, or classical in their allusive ness of phrasing. Especially grateful must we be to the number of poets, of exquisite feeling and easy mastery of form, who during the last fifty or sixty years have enriched the language with delicate and elegant verse, from which it has been only too difficult to choose because its quantity is so great and its merit so even. Of this we trust we have given a tolerably adequate selection but it would have been easy to multiply it fourfold. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Friendship, and Other Essays (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 13 : 9781334949753
Total Pages : 100 pages
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Book Synopsis Friendship, and Other Essays (Classic Reprint) by : Ralph Waldo Emerson

Download or read book Friendship, and Other Essays (Classic Reprint) written by Ralph Waldo Emerson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-01-09 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Friendship, and Other Essays Toward others, are likened to the material effects of fire; so swift, or much more swift, more active, more cheering are these fine ih ward irradiations. From the highest degree of passionate love, to the lowest degree of good will, they make the sweetness of life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Correspondence of Henrik Ibsen

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Download or read book The Correspondence of Henrik Ibsen written by Henrik Ibsen and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on 2017-05-23 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Correspondence of Henrik Ibsen ON the 3lst of May 1880, Henrik Ibsen wrote to his publisher, Frederik Hegel, that he had begun a little book in which he intended to give some account of the outward and inward conditions under which each one of his works had come into being (letter It was to be called From Simian, to Rome, and was to give descriptions of his life at Skien and Grimstad, Bergen and Christiania, Dresden, Munich, and Rome. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Friendship

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ISBN 13 : 9780267432288
Total Pages : 318 pages
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Download or read book Friendship written by Elizabeth Sandham and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Friendship: A Tale Pleasures, thus reflected, those who seek only their own convenience; can never know. My intention, therefore, in the following work, is to persuade my readers to cultivate those gentle arts, and every day virtues, which secure the' daily happiness Of ourselves and others. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.