MUSINGS ON FRIENDSHIP <\/span><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \u2018The only way to have a friend is to be one\u2019 <\/p>\n \u2018Love demands infinitely less than friendship\u2019 \u2018The severest test of character is not so much the ability to keep a secret as it is, but when the secret is finally out, to refrain from disclosing that you knew it all along.\u2019<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u2018It is easier to find fault with others, but it is not so easy to live so that others will not see faults in us. We tend to criticise our friends for doing things we could do no better.\u2019<\/p>\n \u2018Yesterday is but a reflection \u2018Choose your friends with care, that you may have choice friends.\u2019<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u2018I breathed a song into the air, \u2018The anxiety of some people to make new friends is so intense that they never have old ones.\u2019<\/p>\n \u2018People are lonely because they build forts instead of bridges.\u2019 \u2018Who ceases to be a friend, never was one.\u2019<\/p>\n \u2018A real friend never gets in the way, unless you hap-pen to be on the way down.\u2019<\/p>\n \u2018True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.\u2019 <\/p>\n \u2018Life is not so much what each individual makes of it, but what we make of it for each other.\u2019<\/p>\n \u2018Shared joy is double joy and shared sorrow is half-sorrow.\u2019<\/p>\n \u2018Never fear shadows. They simply mean there\u2019s a light shining somewhere nearby.\u2019<\/p>\n \u2018Do not save your loving speeches<\/p>\n For your friends till they are dead;<\/p>\n Do not write them on their tombstones,<\/p>\n Speak them rather now instead.\u2019<\/p>\n Anna Cummins<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n MUSINGS ON FRIENDSHIP \u2018The only way to have a friend is to be one\u2019 Ralph Waldo Emerson \u2018Love demands infinitely less than friendship\u2019 George Jean Nathan \u2018The severest test of character is not so much the ability to keep a secret as it is, but when the secret is finally out, to refrain from disclosing that you knew it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[228],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6cWjO-3Fu","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6952,"url":"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/?p=6952","url_meta":{"origin":14104,"position":0},"title":"Miss Garnet\u2019s Angel","author":"Alan Williams","date":"31st December 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 Miss Garnet\u2019s Angel by Salley Vickers The book contains two stories running in parallel, linked by the Angel Raphael. 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\nRalph Waldo Emerson<\/em><\/p>\n
\nGeorge Jean Nathan <\/em><\/p>\n
\nToday is now
\nTomorrow is a bonus.\u2019
\nJim Billingsley<\/em><\/p>\n
\nit fell to earth, I know not where;
\nFor who has sight so keen and strong,
\nthat it can follow the flight of song:-
\nThe song from beginning to end,
\nI found again in the heart of a friend.\u2019
\n(Excerpt) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow<\/em><\/p>\n
\nJoseph Fort Newton<\/em><\/p>\n
\nCharles Caleb Colton<\/em><\/p>\n
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