A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Amicum, qui diu quaeritur, vix invenitur, difficile servatur

St. Jerome

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Saint Jerome. Letter to Rufinus the Monk. c. 374, sect. 6.

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A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

Proverbs 17:17

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Proverbs 17:17).

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Give me chastity and continency—but not yet!

St. Augustine

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Augustine of Hippo. Confessiones [Confessions]. c. 398, bk. 8, ch. 7.

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Augustine of Hippo. Confessions, translated by R. S. Pine-Coffin. Penguin Classics, 1961, bk. 8, ch. 7.

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After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.

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Matthew 6:9-13

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Matthew 6:9-13).

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Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Sextus Propertius

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Sextus Propertius. Elegies. c. 24 BC, bk. 2.

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Sextus Propertius. Elegies, edited and translated by G. P. Goold. Harvard University Press, 1990, bk. 2.

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Looke ere ye leape.

John Heywood

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Heywood, John. The Proverbs of John Heywood. London: George Bell and Sons, 1874, pt. 1, ch. 2.

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