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Great souls by instinct to each other turn,
Demand alliance, and in friendship burn.
Author: Joseph Addison
Source: The Campaign (l. 102)
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The friendships of the world are oft
Confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasure;
Ours has severest virtue for its basis,
And such a friendship ends not but with life.
Author: Joseph Addison
Source: Cato (act III, sc. 1)
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A friend is a second self.
Author: Aristotle
Source: Nicomachean Ethics
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Guests can be, and often are, delightful, but they should never
be allowed to get the upper hand.
Author: Countess Elizabeth von Arnim ("Countess Elizabeth Mary Russell")
Source: All the Dogs in My Life
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Should old acquaintance be forgot,
And never thought upon.
Author: Sir Robert Aytoun (Ayton) of Kincaldie
Source: from his old poem
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The friendship between me and you I will not compare to a chair;
for that the rains might rust, or the falling tree might break.
- George Bancroft,
Author: George Bancroft
Source: History of the United States--Wm. Penn's Treaty with the Indians
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Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in
their death they were not divided: they were swifter than
eagles, they were stronger than lions.
Author: Bible
Source: II Samuel (ch. I, v. 23)
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Honest men esteem and value nothing so much in this world as a
real friend. Such a one is as it were another self, to whom we
impart our most secret thoughts, who partakes of our joy, and
comforts us in our affliction; add to this, that his company is
an everlasting pleasure to us.
Author: Bidpai (Pilpay)
Source: Choice of Friends (chap. iv)
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Friendship! mysterious cement of the soul,
Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society.
Author: Robert Blair
Source: The Grave (l. 87)
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Hand
Grasps at hand, eye lights eye in good friendship,
And great hearts expand
And grow one in the sense of this world's life.
Author: Robert Browning
Source: Saul (st. 7)
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Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And days o' lang syne?
Author: Robert Burns
Source: Auld Lang Syne, Burns refers to these words as an old folk song
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Friendship is Love without his wings!
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: L' Amitie est l' Amour sans Ailes (st. 1)
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In friendship I early was taught to believe;
. . . .
I have found that a friend may profess, yet deceive.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Lines addressed to the Rev. J.T. Becher (st. 7)
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Oh, how you wrong our friendship, valiant youth.
With friends there is not such a word as debt:
Where amity is ty'd with band of truth,
All benefits are there in common set.
Author: Lady Elizabeth Carew (Cary or Carey)
Source: Marian
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How to win friends and influence people.
Author: Dale Carnegie
Source: title of a book
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Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet
never really meet; and two others at first speech are old
friends.
Author: Mary Catherwood
Source: Mackinac and Lake Stories--Marianson
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Agreement in likes and dislikes--this, and this only, is what
constitutes true friendship.
Author: Catiline (Lucius Sergius Catilina)
Source: The War with Catiline by Sallust
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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity
by sharing its griefs and anxieties.
[Lat., Secundas res splendidiores facit amicitia, et adversas
partiens communicansque leviores.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: De Amicitia (VI)
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It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten
before the duties of friendship can be discharged.
[Lat., Vulgo dicitur multos modios salis simul edendos esse, ut
amicitia munus expletum sit.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: De Amicitia (XIX)
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Source: Youth and Age
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What a delight it is to make friends with someone you have
despised!
Author: Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Source: Earthly Paradise: An Autobiography
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Then come the wild weather, come sleet or come snow,
We will stand by each other, however it blow.
Author: Simon Dach
Source: Annie of Tharaw (l. 7), (Longfellow's translation)
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Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship;
and pass the rosy wine.
Author: Charles Dickens
Source: The Old Curiosity Ship (ch. VII)
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What is the odds so long as the fire of souls is kindled at the
taper of conwiviality, and the wing of friendship never moults a
feather?
Author: Charles Dickens
Source: The Old Curiosity Shop (ch. II)
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For friendship, of itself a holy tie,
Is made more sacred by adversity.
Author: John Dryden
Source: The Hind and the Panther (pt. III, l. 47)
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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
Author: Woodrow Wilson
Source: None
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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
Author: James F. Byrnes
Source: None
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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
Source: None
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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity.
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
Source: None
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Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannot congeal in winter.
Author: James Fenimore Cooper
Source: None
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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
Author: George Eliot
Source: None
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Friendships begin with liking or gratitude — roots that can be pulled up.
Author: George Eliot
Source: None
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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.
Author: Thomas Stearns Eliot
Source: None
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Friendship is an order of nobility; from its revelations we come more worthily into nature.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: None
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Friendship demands the ability to do without it.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: None
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Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.
Author: John Evelyn
Source: None
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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
Author: Kahlil Gibran
Source: None
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.'
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Source: None
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Friendship needs no words—it is a loneliness relieved of the anguish of loneliness.
Author: Dag Hammarskjöld
Source: None
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which strengthens with the setting sun of life.
Author: Jean de La La Fontaine
Source: None
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Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
Author: Thomas Jefferson
Source: None
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Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: 'What! You, too? I thought I was the only one.'
Author: Clive Staples (Jack) Lewis
Source: None
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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art ... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
Author: Clive Staples (Jack) Lewis
Source: None
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Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.
Author: John D. MacDonald
Source: None
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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
Author: Mencius
Source: None
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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Author: Charles
Source: None
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Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
Source: None
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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another; people are friends in spots.
Author: George Santayana
Source: None
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Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: None
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Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything. •Muhammad Ali Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Others stay awhile, make footprints on our hearts and we are never, ever the same. •Unknown Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold. •Anonymous My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still. •Anonymous Give me one friend, just one, who meets the needs of all my varying moods.
Author: Muhammad Ali
Source: None
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