Yes, the meeting of dear friends atones for the regret of separation; and like it so much enhances affection, that after absence one wonders how one has been able to stay away from them so long.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.
I still have some very dear friends from school, and we get together whenever possible.
Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.
Few friendships could survive the moodiness of love affairs.
There have been some friendships lost over this. That's the most difficult for me. I find it very uncomfortable to know that I was at one time close friends with someone, and because of jealousies and misunderstandings and so on, these friendships have dissolved.
The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.