Where there is no novelty, there can be no curiosity.
Aphra BehnRead
No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.
Interpretation
A long voyage can strengthen bonds between friends, much like love nurtures relationships.
This quote by Aphra Behn suggests that shared experiences, particularly challenging ones like a long voyage at sea, can enhance and deepen the connections between friends. It implies that just as love grows through shared experiences, friendship too thrives when faced with adventures and trials together, making such journeys a testament to enduring companionship.
In practice
In a speech about the importance of friendship, one might quote, 'No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.'
Where there is no novelty, there can be no curiosity.
Of all that writ, he was the wisest bard, who spoke this mighty truth- He that knew all that ever learning writ, Knew only this-that he knew nothing yet.
That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.
As love is the most noble and divine passion of the soul, so is it that to which we may justly attribute all the real satisfactions of life, and without it, man is unfinished, and unhappy.
One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on.
Here lies a Proof that Wit can never be Defence enough against Mortality
The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.
We are wont to see friendship solely as a phenomenon of intimacy in which the friends open their hearts to each other unmolested by the world and its demands...Thus it is hard for us to understand the political relevance of friendship...But for the Greeks the essence of friendship consisted in discourse...The converse (in contrast to the intimate talk in which individuals speak about themselves), permeated though it may be by pleasure in the friendβs presence, is concerned with the common world.
I dedicate the merit of the occasion to all beings. This gesture of universal friendship has been likened to a drop of fresh spring water. If we put it on a rock in the sunshine, it will soon evaporate. If we put it in the ocean, however, it will never be lost. Thus the wish is made that we not keep the teachings to ourselves but to use them to benefit others.
No-one can replace Richard Wright - he was my musical partner and my friend.
What friends or kindred can be so close and intimate as the powers of our soul, which, whether we will or no, must ever bear us company?
Beneath the blossoms with a pot of wine, No friends at hand, so I poured alone; I raised my cup to invite the moon, Turned to my shadow, and we became three.
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