"Friendship requires more time than poor busy..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.
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More on Friendship
“An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.”
“The best preparedness is the one that disarms the hostility of other nations and makes friends of them.”
“Stephen Blackpool fall into the loneliest of lives, the life of solitude among a familiar crowd. The stranger in the land who looks into ten thousand faces for some answering look and never finds it, is in cheering society as compared with him who passes ten averted faces daily, that were once the countenances of friends”
More on Time
“Time will prolong time, and life will serve life. In this field that is both limited and bulging with possibilities, everything to himself, except his lucidity, seems unforeseeable to him. What rule, then, could emanate from that unreasonable order? The only truth that might seem instructive to him is not formal: it comes to life and unfolds in men. The absurd mind cannot so much expect ethical rules at the end of its reasoning as, rather, illustrations and the breath of human lives.”
“Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.”
“The years teach much which the days never know.”