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There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

Henry David Thoreau
Friends, Sight, Sky
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1139, Delphi Classics

Our actual Friends are but distant relations of those to whom we are pledged.

Henry David Thoreau
Friendship, Friends, Relation
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.110, Penguin

The books for young people say a great deal about the selection of Friends; it is because they really have nothing to say about Friends. They mean associates and confidants merely.

Henry David Thoreau
Friends, Book, Mean
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.112, Penguin

At death our friends and relatives either draw nearer to us and are found out, or depart farther from us and are forgotten. Friends are as often brought nearer together as separated by death.

Henry David Thoreau
Friends, Together, Forgotten
Henry David Thoreau, Horace Elisha Scudder, Harrison Gray Otis Blake, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1898). “The writings of Henry David Thoreau”

I have myself to respect, but to myself I am not amiable; but my friend is my amiableness personified.

Henry David Thoreau
Friends, My Friends, Amiable
Henry David Thoreau (1894). “Winter”

To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Henry David Thoreau
Friends, Kindness, Mean
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.110, Penguin

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