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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.”
Bible Quotes Source: Psalms (ch. XLI, v. 9)
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“I have loved my friends as I do virtue, my soul, my God.”
Sir Thomas Browne Quotes 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.”
Sir Thomas Browne Quotes 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!”
Robert Browning Quotes 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.”
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton Quotes 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.”
Robert Burns Quotes 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!”
Robert Burns Quotes 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.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes 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.”
Thomas Campbell Quotes 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.”
George Canning Quotes Source: New Morality
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“Greatly his foes he dreads, but more his friends,
He hurts me most who lavishly commends.”
Charles Churchill Quotes 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.”
Charles Churchill Quotes Source: Conference (l. 297)
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“A friend is, as it were, a second self.
[Lat., Amicus est tanquam alter idem.]”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes 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.”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes 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,”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes 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.”
Charles Caleb Colton Quotes 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.]”
Pierre Corneille Quotes 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.”
William Cowper Quotes Source: On Friendship (169)
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