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"You may not remember the time you let me go first. Or the time you dropped back to tell me it wasn't that far to go. Or the time you waited at the crossroads for me to catch up. You may not remember any of those, but I do and this is what I have to say to you: Today, no matter what it takes, we ride home together."
"We want to live a simple life, ... I want to emphasize I'm not an environmentalist who goes to church. I want my principal identity as a Christian to be someone who follows Jesus. I want to work for peace and justice, care for God's environment, be a good neighbor and friend and live the right life."
"What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?"
"The friend within the man is that part of him which belongs to you and opens to you a door which never, perhaps, is opened to another. Such a friend is true, and all he says is true; and he loves you even if he hates you in other mansions of his heart."
"Friendship is communion."
"Between friends there is no need of justice."
"Opposition is true friendship."
"The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community."
"Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade."
"Up! up! my friend, and quit your books, Or surely you 'll grow double! Up! up! my friend, and clear your looks! Why all this toil and trouble?"
"Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and widening field of interest is lighted in the mind."
"The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine."
"Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine"
"I wish that friendship should have feet, as well as eyes and eloquence. It must plant itself on the ground, before it vaults overthe moon. I wish it to be a little of a citizen, before it is quite a cherub."
"Officious, innocent, sincere, Of every friendless name the friend."
"We be tight like frogs ass."
"Friendships multiply joys and divide griefs."
"Friendship involves many things but, above all the power of going outside oneself and appreciating what is noble and loving in another."
"Love just seems to make life not just livable, but a gallant, gallant event."
"It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship."
