Part 29

Hand grasps hand, eye lights eye, in good Friendship. And great hearts expand and grow one in the sense of this world's life.

--Browning.

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God never loved me in so sweet a way before; 'Tis he alone who can such blessings send; And when His love would new expression find He brought thee to me and He said, "Behold a friend."

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Friendship is the wine of existence; love the dram-drinking.

--Bulwer.

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He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority, has ceased to love him.

--Madame Swetckine.

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I thank Thee, Lord, for every moment dropped Into my life that had some sweetness in it, For all the golden hours when friendship met And gave up heart for heart and thought for thought, For all the love that faithful hearts let fall, To drop into mine own; for every look From loving eyes; for every smile or word That gladdened me; for subtle influence That made me strong, dear Lord, I thank Thee.

--Pastor.

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I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For who has sight so keen and strong, That it can follow the flight of a song;

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The song from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

--Longfellow.

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I find no place that does not breathe Some gracious memory of my friend.

--Tennyson.

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I awake this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.

--Emerson.

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I can only urge you to prefer friendship to all human possessions; for there is nothing so suited to our nature, so well adapted to prosperity or adversity.

--Cicero.

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