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On Friendship

Our duty is not to see through one another, but to see one another through.  — LEONARD SWEET Go often to the house of your friend, for weeds soon choke up the unused path.  — SCANDINAVIAN PROVERB The sweetness of friendship issues from the response to a basic need in human nature.  One needs friends, companions, to supplement the intimacy of family relationships if his life is to be complete.   — BERYL COHON So unique and important is friendship that God Himself teaches the skill to human beings and creates friendships among people.  — RABBI DAVID WOLPE A friend may well be reckoned a masterpiece of nature.  — RALPH WALDO EMERSON Friendship must be kept in constant repair.    — SAMUEL JOHNSON He makes no friend who never made a foe.  — ALFRED LORD TENNYSON A friend is one who knows your song, and sings it to you when you forget.  — ANONYMOUS It is highly necessary for every...

Be Happy

"The Lord's kindness is attracted to gayety. A joyful person is usually blessed with plenty, even though he may be impious. A sad person is usually in want, even though he be God-fearing." - Simcha Bunim of Pasischa,  "The Wisdom of Israel,"  ed. Lewis Browne