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“Your friend is your needs answered.”
Friendship is described through mutual presence and response, emphasizing what dependable companionship provides.
Source note: The Prophet, “On Friendship.”
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“The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.”
A home gains much of its warmth and value from the people welcomed into it, not merely from possessions, decoration, or physical comfort.
Source note: Society and Solitude, “Domestic Life”; Emerson places friendship and the arrival of new people at the center of a lively and meaningful household.
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“Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.”
Ruskin presents affection toward children as relational rather than one-way: care given to a child can be met with trust, warmth and generosity in return.
Source note: The Crown of Wild Olive, Lecture I, “Work,” Project Gutenberg #26716, printed page 41. Ruskin places the sentence inside a Victorian Christian discussion of what he calls the loving and generous character of “right childhood”; this collection preserves that historical moral framework rather than treating every surrounding prescription as modern child-development evidence.
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“Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.”
Friendship and community require emotional presence in both directions, sharing another person’s joy as well as sorrow.
Source note: Romans 12:15 in the King James Version.
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“I see that Daisy is bound up in Nat; and if he is worthy of her I shall let them be happy in their own way”
Voice: Fictional character · Meg Brooke
Parental care here includes allowing an adult child to choose her own relationship when the parent judges the partner worthy rather than controlling the outcome.
Source note: Jo's Boys, Chapter 10, Project Gutenberg #3499. Mrs Meg is considering Daisy and Nat; the surrounding dialogue explicitly compares her choice with the freedom her own parents gave her.
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“Before him, I may think aloud.”
The line describes the relief of a friendship in which thought can be expressed openly before it is polished for public judgment.
Source note: Emerson continues his description of sincerity between friends in the essay Friendship.