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Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.

“To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be shown from his friend; even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another.

By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

“As you would like people to do to you, do exactly so to them.

“Therefore be merciful, even as your Father is also merciful.

For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in the middle of them.”

The merciful man does good to his own soul, but he who is cruel troubles his own flesh.

The liberal soul shall be made fat. He who waters shall be watered also himself.

He who spares his words has knowledge. He who is even tempered is a man of understanding.

He who covers an offense promotes love; but he who repeats a matter separates best friends.

Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend’s countenance.

Like water reflects a face, so a man’s heart reflects the man.

Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart; so does earnest counsel from a man’s friend.

See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity!

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.

My heart is as dry as that spring sometimes proves in a thirsty August, when I revert to the space that is between us; a length of passage enough to render obsolete the phrases of our English letters before they can reach you.

The partners, and the clerks, with whom I had for so many years, and for so many hours in each day of the year, been closely associated--being suddenly removed from them--they seemed as dead to me.

To be together is for us to be at once as free as in solitude, as gay as in company.

Affected of course I am by the loss of a friend as I think there will never be again, such as I can fearlessly say there never was before.

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

For them all is suspicion and anxiety; for them there is no possibility of friendship.