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No friend's a friend till [he shall] prove a friend.
Author: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
Source: The Faithful Friends (act III, sc. 3, l. 50)
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Friend, of my infinite dreams
Little enough endures;
Little howe'er it seems,
It is yours, all yours.
Author: Arthur Christopher Benson
Source: The Gift
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It is better to avenge a friend than to mourn for him.
Author: Arthur Christopher Benson
Source: The Gift
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Forsake not an old friend; for the new is not comparable to him:
a new friend is as new wine; when it is old, thou shalt drink it
with pleasure.
Author: Bible
Source: Ecclesiasticus (ch. IX, v. 10)
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A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is
a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
Author: Bible
Source: Proverbs (ch. XVIII, v. 24)
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Iron sharpen iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his
friend.
Author: Bible
Source: Proverbs (ch. XXVII, v. 17)
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Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy
are deceitful.
Author: Bible
Source: Proverbs (ch. XXVII, v. 6)
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Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat
of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.
Author: Bible
Source: Psalms (ch. XLI, v. 9)
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I have loved my friends as I do virtue, my soul, my God.
Author: Sir Thomas Browne
Source: Religio Medici (pt. II, sec. V)
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Now with my friend I desire not to share or participate, but to
engross his sorrows, that, by making them mine own, I may more
easily discuss them; for in mine own reason, and within myself, I
can command that which I cannot entreat without myself, and
within the circle of another.
Author: Sir Thomas Browne
Source: Religio Medici (pt. II, sec. V)
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Let my hand,
This hand, lie in your own--my own true friend;
Aprile! Hand-in-hand with you, Aprile!
Author: Robert Browning
Source: Paracelsus (sc. 5)
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There is no man so friendless but what he can find a friend
sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths.
Author: Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton
Source: What Will He Do With It? (bk. II, ch. XIV)
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We twa hae run about the braes,
And pu'd the gowans fine.
Author: Robert Burns
Source: Auld Lang Syne
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His ancient, trusty, drouthy crony,
Tam lo'ed him like a vera brither--
They had been fou for weeks thegither!
Author: Robert Burns
Source: Tam o' Shanter
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Ah! were I sever'd from thy side,
Where were thy friend and who my guide?
Years have not seen, Time shall not see
The hour that tears my soul from thee.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: The Bride of Abydos (canto I, st. 11)
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'Twas sung, how they were lovely in their lives,
And in their deaths had not divided been.
Author: Thomas Campbell
Source: Gertrude of Wyoming (pt. 33)
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Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe;
Bold I can meet--perhaps may turn his blow;
But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send,
Save, save, oh! save me from the candid friend.
Author: George Canning
Source: New Morality
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Greatly his foes he dreads, but more his friends,
He hurts me most who lavishly commends.
Author: Charles Churchill
Source: The Apology (l. 19)
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Friends I have made, whom Envy must commend,
But not one foe whom I would wish a friend.
Author: Charles Churchill
Source: Conference (l. 297)
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A friend is, as it were, a second self.
[Lat., Amicus est tanquam alter idem.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: De Amicitia (XXI, 80 (adapted))
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You must therefore love me, myself, and not my circumstances, if
we are to be real friends.
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: De Finibus, (Yonge's translation)
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There is no treasure the which may be compared unto a faithful
friend;
Gold some decayeth, and worldly wealth consumeth, and wasteth in
the winde;
But love once planted in a perfect and pure minde indureth weale
and woe;
The frownes of fortune, come they never so unkinde, cannot the
same overthrowe.
- edited by John Payne Collier,
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: De Finibus, (Yonge's translation)
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Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their
friendship; and when they hear us praised by others, will ascribe
it to sinister and interested motives if they can.
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
Source: Lacon (p. 80)
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Let us be friends, Cinna, it is I who invite you to be so.
[Fr., Soyons amis, Cinna, c'est moi qui t'en convie.]
Author: Pierre Corneille
Source: Cinna (V, 3)
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The man that hails you Tom or Jack,
And proves by thumps upon your back
How he esteems your merit,
Is such a friend, that one had need
Be very much his friend indeed
To pardon or to bear it.
Author: William Cowper
Source: On Friendship (169)
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