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
At the end of your life, it's friendships, emotions and thoughts that you take with you, rather than what's in your bank account. So, even though people don't have a lot here, they are a lot richer in many ways and we can learn from that.
The vanishing of David Tang is like the unthinkable diappearance of a magnificent palace on a mythical mountaintop. He was a dreammaker, pianist, adventurer, writer, entrepreneur, scholar, connoisseur, and a great friend.
Ordinary imperfect people, always choose similarly imperfect people as friends.
The dog of your boyhood teaches you a great deal about friendship, and love, and death: Old Skip was my brother. They had buried him under our elm tree, they said-yet this wasn't totally true. For he really lay buried in my heart.
I wanted to collaborate with someone, but it had to be someone I could work with and who wouldn't disrespect my past.
We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.
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