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"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair."
"To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart."
"We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits."
"When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend."
"What lies before us? Horrible thoughts arise in my heart. If we had died before today we should have been happy."
"When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative."
"However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship."
"Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy."
"Here the whole world (stars, water, air,And field, and forest, as they wereReflected in a single mind)Like cast off clothes was left behindIn ashes, yet with hopes that she,Re-born from holy poverty,In lenten lands, hereafter mayResume them on her Easter Day."(Epitaph for Joy Davidman)"
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"Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment."
"Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book."
"It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world."
"There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance."
"The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome."
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