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“Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock.

“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.

Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared, for today is holy to our Lord. Don’t be grieved, for the joy of Yahweh is your strength.”

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when longing is fulfilled, it is a tree of life.

One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

So then, let’s follow after things which make for peace, and things by which we may build one another up.

For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself.

For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord’s.

Come back, before I am grown into a very old man, so as you shall hardly know me.

Fire and water themselves, to use a common expression, are not of more universal use than friendship.

Chide me when I do anything that is not well, but then make haste to tell me that you have forgiven me, and that you are what I shall ever be, a faithful friend.

Had it not been for the persistent encouragement of Miss Sullivan, I think I should have given up trying to write altogether.

Friends are as often brought nearer together as separated by death.

Your strength can compensate for my weakness, and your wisdom can help to minimize my mistakes.

There are some days when we need a hand. There are other days when we're called on to lend one.

As life wears on the love of husband or wife, of friends and of children, becomes the great solace and delight of age.

Even if we are alone, we store up our enjoyment in hope of sharing it hereafter with those we love.

Love is the light and sunshine of life.

Love lasts through life, and adapts itself to every age and circumstance; in childhood for father and mother, in manhood for wife, in age for children, and throughout for brothers and sisters, relations and friends.

Most of those who have written in praise of books have thought they could say nothing more conclusive than to compare them to friends.

Some people never seem to appreciate their friends till they have lost them.

Every one must have felt that a cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around; and most of us can, as we choose, make of this world either a palace or a prison.

We love the ticking of the clock, and the flicker of the fire, like the sound of the cawing of rooks, not so much for any beauty of their own as for their associations.

There is nothing to which nature seems so much to have inclined us, as to society

We sought one another long before we met, and by the characters we heard of one another