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FORTITUDE. 
Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, 
Suffering yet hoping all things. 
FRIENDSHIP.* 
How sweet to have a faithful friend. 
In whom we can confide; 
To bless us if we act aright. 
And if we err to chide. 
True friends are like diamonds. 
Precious but rare. 
Palse ones like autumn leaves. 
Pound everywhere. 
— Anon. 
—Anon. 
— Anon. 
False friends are like our shadows, keeping close to us while we walk in the 
sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade. 
— Bovee. 
If grief thy steps attend, 
If want, if sickness be thy lot, 
And thou require a soothing friend, 
Forget me not! forget me not! 
— Mrs. Opie. 
Yes, we must ever he friends; and of all who offer you friend ship, 
Let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest! 
— Longfellow. 
Let not your friendship be like the rose to sever: 
Put, like the evergreen, may it last forever! 
— Anon. 
There are few friends in this wide world, 
Whose love is fond and true; 
Put,-, when you count them o’er 
Place me amongst the few. 
—Anon. 
*See, also, pages 97, 184,185 and 186. 
