History: The Prophet: On Friendship

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||On Friendship| And a youth said, "Speak to us of Friendship."| Your friend is your needs answered.| He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.| And he is your board and your fireside.| For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace.| When your friend speaks his mind you fear not the "nay" in your own mind, nor do you withhold the "ay."| And when he is silent your heart ceases not to listen to his heart;| For without words, in friendship, all thoughts, all desires, all expectations are born and shared, with joy that is unacclaimed.| When you part from your friend, you grieve not;| For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.| And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.| For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own mystery is not love but a net cast forth: and only the unprofitable is caught.| And let your best be for your friend.| If he must know the ebb of your tide, let him know its flood also.| For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill?| Seek him always with hours to live.| For it is his to fill your need, but not your emptiness.| And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.| For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.| || ||((The Prophet|The Prophet)) |le prije ctuca / le pijyctu (the wise teacher) ((The Prophet: The Coming of the Ship)) |.i nu selklama le bloti ((The Prophet: On Love)) |lo ka prami ((The Prophet: On Marriage)) |lo nu speni ((The Prophet: On Children)) |lo panzi ((The Prophet: On Giving)) |lo nu dunda ((The Prophet: On Eating and Drinking)) |lo nu citka je pinxe ((The Prophet: On Work)) |lo zu'o gunka ((The Prophet: On Joy and Sorrow)) |lo li'i gleki je badri ((The Prophet: On Houses)) |lo zdani ((The Prophet: On Clothes)) |lo taxfu ((The Prophet: On Buying and Selling)) |lo nu tevecnu je vecnu ((The Prophet: On Crime and Punishment)) |lo zekri .e lo nu sfasa ((The Prophet: On Laws)) |lo flalu ((The Prophet: On Freedom)) |lo za'i zifre ((The Prophet: On Reason and Passion)) | lo nu krinu pensi .e lo se cinmo ((The Prophet: On Pain)) | lo nu dunku ((The Prophet: On Self-Knowledge)) | lo nu sevzi djuno ((The Prophet: On Teaching)) | lo nu ctuca ((The Prophet: On Friendship)) | lo nu pendo ((The Prophet: On Talking)) | lo nu tavla ((The Prophet: On Time)) | lo temci ((The Prophet: On Good and Evil)) | lo ka vrude .e lo ka pacna ((The Prophet: On Prayer)) | lo nu jdaselsku ((The Prophet: On Pleasure)) | lo za'i pluka ((The Prophet: On Beauty)) | lo ka melbi ((The Prophet: On Religion)) | lo lijde ((The Prophet: On Death)) | lo nu morsi ((The Prophet: The Farewell)) | le nu cusku zo co'o||