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No word is oftener on the lips of men than Friendship, and in- 

 deed no thought is more familiar to their aspirations. All men are 

 dreaming of it, and its drama, which is always a tragedy, is enacted 

 daily. It is the secret of the universe. You may thread the town, you 

 may wander the country, and none shall ever speak of it, yet thought 

 is everywhere busy about it, and the idea of what is possible in this 

 respect affects our behavior toward all new men and women, and a 

 great many old ones. 



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Think of the importance of Friendship in the education of men. 



"He that hath love and judgment too, 

 Sees more than any other doe." 

 It will make a man honest ; it will make him a hero ; it will make 

 him a saint. It is the state of the just dealing with the just, the mag- 

 nanimous with the magnanimous, the sincere with the sincere, man 

 with man. 



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Between whom there is hearty truth, there is love ; and in pro- 

 portion to our truthfulness and confidence in one another, our lives 

 are divine and miraculous, and answer to our ideal. There are pass- 

 ages of affection in our intercourse with mortal men and women, such 

 as no prophecy had taught us to expect, which transcend our earthly 

 life, and anticipate Heaven for us. 



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As I love nature, as I love singing birds, and gleaming stubble* 

 and flowing rivers, and morning and evening, and summer and winter, 

 I love thee, my Friend. 



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Even the death of Friends will inspire us as much as their lives. 

 They will leave consolation to the mourners, as the rich leave money 

 to defray the expenses of their funerals, and their memories will be 

 incrusted over with sublime and pleasing thoughts, as monuments of 

 other men are overgrown with moss ; for our Friends have no place in 

 the graveyard. — Henry David Thoreau. 



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