Friends, but few on earth, and therefore dear.
—Pollok.
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The poor man's assets are his friends.
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Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give such will cease to love.
—Fuller.
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RECOGNITION IN HEAVEN.
Baxter said:—"I must confess, as the experience of my own soul, that the expectation of loving my friends in heaven principally kindles my love to them while on earth. If I thought I should never know, and consequently never love them after this life, I should number them with temporal things, and love them as such; but I now delightfully converse with my pious friends, in a firm persuasion that I shall converse with them forever; and I take comfort in those that are dead or absent, believing that I shall shortly meet them in heaven, and love them with a heavenly love."