Quote 4513

True friendship will value a great advantage of another's before a small one of our own.
Adam Martindale

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Adam Martindale Friendship

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Dead stones in an arch uphold one another, and shall not living? It is the work of an angel to comfort—nay, it is the office of the Holy Ghost to be a comforter not only immediately but by breathing comfort into our hearts together with the comfortable words of others. Thus, one friend becomes an angel—nay, a God to another, and there is a sweet sight of God in the face of a friend.

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A sincere Christian prays his friends to search him, and he prays soul-searching ministers to search him; but, above all, he begs hard of God to search him: "Search me, O God."

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A true friend is neither known in prosperity nor hid in adversity.

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