Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.
Interpretation
Regularly visiting friends fosters strong relationships and prevents distance from growing.
This quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson emphasizes the importance of maintaining friendships through regular connection and visits. Just as an unused path can become overgrown with weeds, a friendship can weaken and fade if not tended to through interaction and visits.
In practice
During a speech about the importance of friendships, one might say, 'As Ralph Waldo Emerson wisely noted, we must go oft to the house of our friends.'
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
I don't have many friends; I'm very much a loner. As a child I was very isolated and I've never been really close to anyone.
A new friend is always a miracle, but at thirty-three years old, such a bird of paradise rising in the sage-brush was an avatar. One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly
If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!
It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship.
With every true friendship, we build more firmly the foundations on which the peace of the whole world rests.
We spoke of how to say good-bye,β Jem said. βWhen Jonathan bid farewell to David, he said, βGo in peace, for as much as we have sworn, both of us, saying the Lord be between me and thee, forever.β They did not see each other again, but they did not forget. So it will be with us. When I am Brother Zachariah, when I no longer see the world with my human eyes, I will still be in some part the Jem you knew, and I will see you with the eyes of my heart.
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