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
I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.
With every true friendship, we build more firmly the foundations on which the peace of the whole world rests.
Every man has frequent grievances which only the solicitude of friendship will discover and remedy, and which would remain for ever unheeded in the mighty heap of human calamity, were it only surveyed by the eye of general benevolence equally attentive to every misery.
If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend.
Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.
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