“The pleasantest of all diversions is to sit alone under the lamp, a book spread out before you, and to make friends with people of a distant past you have never known.”
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Essays in Idleness (1967 Columbia University Press, Trns: Donald Keene)
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japanese writer 1283–1350Related quotes
“If you make friends with yourself, you'll never be alone.”
Variant: If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.
“Prove your friend ere you have need, but in deed
A friend is never known till a man have need.”
Part I, chapter 11.
Proverbs (1546)
Was falsely attributed to Rutherford by Joni Eareckson-Tada in Heaven: Your Real Home http://books.google.com.mx/books?id=cQrPd8R0o0kC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false (2010), p. 259 From Edward Payson in " Momentos of Rev. Edward Payson D.D., ed. Edwin L. Janes (New York: Nelson & Phillips, 1873), p. 87 https://archive.org/details/mementosofrevedw00pays/mode/2up.
The Original version reads: "... for if you should see a man shut up in a close room, idolizing a set of lamps, and rejoicing in their light, and you wished to make him truly happy, you would begin by blowing out all his lamps, and then throw open the shutters, to let in the light of heaven."
Ref: en.wikiquote.org - Samuel Rutherford / Misattributed
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