Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables. Friendship demands the ability to do without it.
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Dear to us are those who love us. . . but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit . . .Ralph Waldo Emerson
We take care of our health we lay up money we make our roof tight and our clothing sufficient but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting in the best property of allfriends.
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So ... I feel in regard to this aged England ... pressed upon by transitions of trade and ... competing populations, I see her not dispirited, not weak, but well remembering that she has seen dark days beforeindeed, with a kind of instinct that she sees a little better in a cloudy day, and that, in storm of battle and calamity, she has a secret vigor and a pulse like a cannon.
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I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.
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The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality.
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The only reward of virtue is virtue the only way to have a friend is to be one.
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