Legacy YM

Chapter 19 - Friendship

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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.

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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.


Chapter1 - The Coming of the Ship
Chapter2 - Love
Chapter3 - Marriage
Chapter4 - Children
Chapter5 - Giving
Chapter6 - Eating and Drinking
Chapter7 - Work
Chapter8 - Joy and Sorrow
Chapter9 - Houses
Chapter10 - Clothes
Chapter11 - Buying and Selling
Chapter12 - Crime and Punishment
Chapter13 - Laws
Chapter14 - Freedom
Chapter15 - Reason and Passion
Chapter16 - Pain
Chapter17 - Self-Knowledge
Chapter18 - Teaching
Chapter19 - Friendship
Chapter20 - Talking
Chapter21 - Time
Chapter22 - Good and Evil
Chapter23 - Prayer
Chapter24 - Pleasure
Chapter25 - Beauty
Chapter26 - Religion
Chapter27 - Death
Chapter28 - The Farewell

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