Time draweth wrinkles in a fair face, but addeth fresh colors to a fast friend, which neither heat, nor cold, nor misery, nor place, nor destiny, can alter or diminish
Interpretation
Time may change our appearance, but true friendship deepens and endures regardless of circumstances.
This quote by John Lyly highlights the contrasting effects of time on physical beauty and deep human connections. While our faces may develop wrinkles as we age, the bonds we form with true friends only become stronger, enriched by shared experiences and resilience against life's adversities. True friendship is not swayed by external conditions or the passage of time; it remains constant and vibrant.
In practice
In a speech about the importance of enduring friendships.
A heat full of coldness, a sweet full of bitterness, a pain full of pleasantness, which maketh thoughts have eyes and hearts ears, bred by desire, nursed by delight, weaned by jealousy, kill'd by dissembling, buried by ingratitude, and this is love.
God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him! The charms of the heaven in the bush are superseded, I fear, by the heaven in the hand, occasionally.
It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship.
To make a point of declaring friendship is to cheapen it. For men's emotions are very rarely put into words successfully.
With another shock of excitement, Harry saw Sirius give James the thumbs-up. Sirius was lounging in his chair at his ease, tilting it back on two legs. He was very good-looking, his dark hair fell into his eyes with a sort of casual elegance neither James's nor Harry's could ever have achieved, and a girl sitting behind him was eyeing him hopefully, though he didn't seem to have noticed.
I definitely did look up to John. We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest.
In a Ramada Inn near the grapevine, they stop to rest for the night. Traveling down south, looking for good times. Visiting old friends feels right.
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