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The State is a poor, good beast who means the best: it means friendly.
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.
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My joy in friends, those sacred people, is my consolation.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
We want but two or three friends, but these we cannot do without, and they serve us in every thought we think.
Oh, be my friend, and teach me to be thine!
O friend, my bosom said,
Through thee alone the sky is arched.
Through thee the rose is red;
All things through thee take nobler form,
And look beyond the earth,
The mill-round of our fate appears
A sun-path in thy worth.
Me too thy nobleness has taught
To master my despair;
The fountains of my hidden life
Are through thy friendship fair.
Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine in expiation of daily non-appearance on parade. Their works are done as an apology or extenuation of their living in the world. I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is not an apology, but a life.
Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.
Our friends early appear to us as representatives of certain ideas, which they never pass or exceed. They stand on the brink of the ocean of thought and power, but they never take a single step that would bring them there.
In the last analysis, love is only the reflection of a man's own worthiness from other men.
Only be admonished by what you already see, not to strike leagues of friendship with cheap persons, where no friendship can be. Our impatience betrays us into rash and foolish alliances which no God attends.
Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners.
My friends have come to me unsought. The great God gave them to me. By oldest right, by the divine affinity of virtue with itself,I find them, or rather not I, but the Deity in me and in them derides and cancels the thick walls of the individual character, relation, age, sex, circumstance, at which he usually connives, and now makes many one.
We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected.
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The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
