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Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half
If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship
The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust
Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command
Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood
Small service is true service while it lasts.
Of humblest friends, bright creature! scorn not one:
The daisy, by the shadow that it casts,
Protects the lingering dewdrop from the sun.
Of humblest friends, bright creature! scorn not one:
The daisy, by the shadow that it casts,
Protects the lingering dewdrop from the sun.
To a Child. Written in her Album
Think where man's glory most begins and ends,
And say my glory was I had such friends.
And say my glory was I had such friends.
Last Poems, 1936-1939, The Municipal Gallery Revisited
Think where man's glory most begins and ends,
And say my glory was I had such friends.
And say my glory was I had such friends.
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