- Source
- The Prophet
- Date
- 1923
Meaning of “Your friend is your needs answered.”
Friendship is described through mutual presence and response, emphasizing what dependable companionship provides.
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The Prophet, “On Friendship.”
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“I can no other answer make but thanks, and thanks, and ever thanks.”
Meaning & context
Sebastian responds to Antonio’s costly loyalty with repeated thanks while also admitting that words alone are an inadequate repayment for practical care.
Source details
Twelfth Night, Act III, Scene 3, Sebastian; 1922 Yale Shakespeare edition edited by George Henry Nettleton, printed page 56 / Wikisource scan leaf 68. Sebastian tells Antonio, “I can no other answer make but thanks, and thanks, and ever thanks,” after Antonio explains that concern for Sebastian’s safety drove him onward despite danger in Illyria. It remains fictional gratitude dialogue tied to Antonio’s costly loyalty, not Shakespeare autobiography.
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“If ever two were one, then surely we.”
Meaning & context
Bradstreet opens with a compact assertion of marital unity, setting up a poem that measures the value of mutual love against material wealth and even mortality.
Source details
“To My Dear and Loving Husband,” posthumously published in the 1678 second edition of Several Poems; represented by Representative Poetry Online. The poem is a Puritan-era personal love lyric with explicitly religious closing language.
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“Happy is the house that shelters a friend!”
Meaning & context
A home becomes meaningful through the quality of relationship it can shelter, not only through its comfort or possessions.
Source details
Essays: First Series, “Friendship” (first published 1841), verified against Project Gutenberg #2944 and the page-numbered 1907 Charles E. Merrill / Edna H. L. Turpin Essays witness in Project Gutenberg #16643, printed page 126. “Happy is the house that shelters a friend!” follows Emerson’s contrast between metaphysical uncertainty and the felt solidity of genuine friendship; the statement remains transcendentalist moral-philosophical rhetoric rather than a measurable claim about housing or wellbeing.
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“We've got Father and Mother, and each other.”
Meaning & context
Beth answers material lack by naming the relationships the sisters still possess, turning family presence into a concrete reason for gratitude rather than denying hardship.
Source details
Little Women, Chapter 1, “Playing Pilgrims,” Project Gutenberg #514. Beth March answers her sisters’ complaints about poverty with “We’ve got Father and Mother, and each other,” naming family relationships as what remains available to them. This is Beth’s fictional dialogue inside the opening domestic scene.
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“It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.”
Meaning & context
Giving becomes deeper when it includes time, attention, effort, and presence rather than possessions alone.
Source details
The Prophet, “On Giving.”
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“You give but little when you give of your possessions.”
Meaning & context
Possessions can be given without much personal cost; Gibran prepares the contrast with giving one’s own time and presence.
Source details
The Prophet, “On Giving.”
