As surely as the sunset in my latest November shall translate me to the ethereal world, and remind me of the ruddy morning of youth; as surely as the last strain of music which falls on my decaying ear shall make age to be forgotten, or, in short, the manifold influences of nature survive during the term of our natural life, so surely my Friend shall forever be my Friend, and reflect a ray of God to me, and time shall foster and adorn and consecrate our Friendship, no less than the ruins of temples.
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- Lots of sources credit Henry David Thoreau with this, and they agree with each other. The book or the speech it first came from hasn't turned up yet.
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It takes a village to raise a child.African proverbThe typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, 'What? You too? I thought I was the only one.'
C.S. LewisMy friends are my 'estate.' Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them.
Emily DickinsonWithout friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
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