Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
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Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.
Never forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.
The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.
Two are better than one,because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lif' up his fellow, but woe to him that is alone when he falleth, for he hath not another to help him up.
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.
No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
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