Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
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.
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few.
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.
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.
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