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The great art of life is to moderate our passions. Objects of affection are like other belongings. We must love them enough to enrich our lives while ...more

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Even in your hobbies, has there not always been some secret attraction which the others are curiously ignorant of--something, not to be identified wit...more

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Then Caspian caught up a battle-axe and rushed upon the Lord Drinian to kill him, and Drinian stood still as a stock for the death blow. But when the ...more

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We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.

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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

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Two heads are better than one, not because either is infallible, but because they are unlikely to go wrong in the same direction.

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The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surprising result will follow. If in your working hours...more

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We meet like sovereign princes of independent states, abroad, on neutral ground, freed from our contexts

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Are not lifelong friendships born at the moment when at last you meet another human being who has some inkling (but faint and uncertain even in the be...more

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Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too?

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Do you not know how bashful friendship is? Friends - comrades - do not look at each other. Friendship would be ashamed...

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But for a Christian, there are, strictly speaking, no chances. A secret Master of Ceremonies has been at work. Christ, who said to the disciples, 'Ye ...more

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Friendship exhibits a glorious "nearness by resemblance" to Heaven itself where the very multitude of the blessed (which no man can number) increases ...more

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For us of course the shared activity and therefore the companionship on which Friendship supervenes will not often be a bodily one like hunting or fig...more

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In each of my friends there is something that only some other friend can fully bring out. By myself I am not large enough to call the whole man into a...more