Selden, John -- Table Talk, § 45 “Friends” (1689)

Dave — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 18:48:01 +0000

Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were easiest for his feet.

John Selden (1584-1654) English jurist, legal scholar, antiquarian, polymath
Table Talk, § 45 “Friends” (1689)
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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth -- “The Fire of Drift-Wood”, l. 13 in The Seaside and the Fireside (1850)

Dave — Fri, 18 Nov 2016 01:15:50 +0000

We spake of many a vanished scene,
Of what we once had thought and said,
Of what had been, and might have been,
And who was changed, and who was dead;
And all that fills the hearts of friends,
When first they feel, with secret pain,
Their lives thenceforth have separate ends,
And never can be one again.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) American poet
“The Fire of Drift-Wood”, l. 13 in The Seaside and the Fireside (1850)

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Selden, John -- Table Talk, § 45 “Friends” (1689)

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth -- “The Fire of Drift-Wood”, l. 13 in The Seaside and the Fireside (1850)