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The road to a friend's house is never long.
The road to a friend's house is never long.
... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by read more
... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.
To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any read more
To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any other station or capacity in social life.
The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think read more
A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.
One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of read more
One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.
A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you read more
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
