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“The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.”

Friendship Sun Laziness Penetrate Distant Friend

Author:Paul Cezanne

“Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds.”

Friendship Sun Plant Clouds Ill Thrive

Book:Concord Days

Source: Concord Days

“Friendships are the purer and the more ardent, the nearer they come to the presence of God, the Sun not only of righteousness but of love.”

Friendship Sun Righteousness Presence Of God Ardent

Book:Indexes. Table of first lines. Imaginary conversations

Source: Indexes. Table of first lines. Imaginary conversations

“Such is friendship, that through it we love places and seasons; for as bright bodies emit rays to a distance, and flowers drop their sweet leaves on the ground around them, so friends impart favor even to the places where they dwell. With friends even poverty is pleasant. Words cannot express the joy which a friend imparts; they only can know who have experienced. A friend is dearer than the light of heaven, for it would be better for us that the sun were exhausted than that we should be without friends.”

Knows Should Body Light Would Be Joy Heaven Friendship Poverty Sun Sweet Flower Seasons Distance Favors Pleasant Rays Exhausted Impart Without Friends

Author:Saint John Chrysostom

“As the shadow in early morning, is friendship with the wicked; it dwindles hour by hour. But friendship with the good increases, like the evening shadows, till the sun of life sets.”

Friendship Hours Morning Sun Shadow Increase Evening Wicked Early Morning

Author:Johann Gottfried Herder

“With a clear sky, a bright sun, and a gentle breeze, you will have friends in plenty; but let fortune frown, and the firmament be overcast, and then your friends will prove like the strings of the lute, of which you will tighten ten before you find one that will bear the stretch and keep the pitch.”

Friendship Sun Clear Sky Bears Ten Prove Fortune Plenty Gentle Strings Breeze Firmament Overcast Clear Skies

Author:Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

“Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.”

Source: Salmagundi

“As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe.”

World Friendship Sun Forgiveness Mercy Embrace Foe Beam Firmament

Author:Friedrich Schiller

“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.”

“Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run; To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel; to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease, For Summer has o’er-brimm’d their clammy cells.”

Source: Poetry Manuscripts at Harvard

“A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.”

Inspirational Friendship Sun Friends Shadow Shining Poor Richard Fake Friends Sun Shines False Friends

Book:Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack

Source: Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack

“Are you upset little friend? Have you been lying awake worrying? Well, don't worry...I'm here. The flood waters will recede, the famine will end, the sun will shine tomorrow, and I will always be here to take care of you.”

Wells Littles Ends Care Lying Faith Water Friendship Worry Sun Tomorrow Shining Take Care Upset Awake Sunshine Flood Famine Snoopy

Author:Charles M. Schulz

“If you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world…if you tame me, it will be as if the sun came to shine on my life. I shall know the sound of a step that will be different from all the others. Other steps send me hurrying back underneath the ground. Yours will call me, like music, out of my burrow”

Ifs Knows World Needs Different Sound Friendship Steps Sun Unique Shining Call Me Hurrying Shine On Wheat Fields

Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“Hast any philosophy in thee shepherd? .• • • • . . . He that wants money, means and content, is without three good friends; that the property of rain is to wet and fire to burn; that good pasture makes fat sheep, and a great cause of the night is lack of the sun; that he that hath learned no wit by nature nor art may complain of good breeding or comes of a very dull kindred.”

Source: Select Plays of William Shakespeare: In Six Volumes. With the Corrections & Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added, Notes

“Someone spoke of your death, Heraclitus. It brought me Tears, and I remembered how often together We ran the sun down with talk . . . somewhere You've long been dust, my Halicarnassian friend. But your Nightingales live on. Though the Death world Claws at everything, it will not touch them.”

World Long Together Friendship Sun Tears Dust Remembered Ran Spokes Claws Nightingales

Author:Callimachus