The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.
Interpretation
As we grow older, our appreciation for the bonds of friendship and family deepens.
This quote by Samuel Johnson speaks to the idea that with age and life experience comes a deeper understanding and appreciation for the relationships we hold dear. It emphasizes that as we reflect on our lives, we increasingly value the tenderness and connections we cultivate with friends and parents, recognizing their importance in our journey through life.
In practice
This quote can be shared at a friend's birthday celebration to highlight the importance of friendship.
To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.
He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.
To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.
Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.
When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaining; but exert yourselves to hide it, and by endeavoring to hide it you drive it away.
A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.
The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
The good man is the friend of all living things.
I'd rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.
I dreamed in a dream, I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the whole of the rest of the earth; I dreamed that was the new City of Friends; Nothing was greater there than the quality of robust loveβit led the rest; It was seen every hour in the actions of the men of that city, And in all their looks and words.
There is nothing more becoming any wise man, than to make choice of friends, for by them thou shalt be judged what thou art: let them therefore be wise and virtuous, and none of those that follow thee for gain; but make election rather of thy betters, than thy inferiors.
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