None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
Henry David ThoreauRead
Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.
Interpretation
True friends support and value each other's aspirations.
Henry David Thoreau emphasizes the essence of friendship as a mutual appreciation for each otherβs hopes and dreams. Friends, in their genuine bond, uplift each other and foster an environment where both can thrive in their aspirations, showcasing kindness and understanding towards one another's ambitions.
In practice
In a speech about friendship at a wedding.
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.
An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
Have no mean hours, but be grateful for every hour, and accept what it brings. The reality will make any sincere record respectable.
As every season seems best to us in its turn, so the coming in of spring is like the creation of Cosmos out of Chaos and the realization of the Golden Age.
That grand old poem called Winter
The story, from beginning to end, I found again in a heart of a friend.
We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet. Even longer,' Pooh answered.
True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
I have loved my friends as I do virtue, my soul, my God.
To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.
It would be the death of you to come with me, Sam," said Frodo, "and I could not have borne that." "Not as certain as being left behind," said Sam. "But I am going to Mordor." "I know that well enough, Mr. Frodo. Of course you are. And I'm coming with you.
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