Friendship Quotes

• "Friendship * * * is a long time in forming, it is of slow growth, through many trials and months of familiarity."
  By: Jean de la Bruyere
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• "Life has no pleasure higher or nobler than that of friendship."
  By: Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature")
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• "Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions. What we have missed long enough to want it, we value more when it is regained; but that which has been lost till it is forgotten will be found at last with little gladness, and with still less if a substitute has supplied the place."
  By: Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature")
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• "Friendship is seldom lasting, but between equals, or where superiority is reduced by some equivalent advantage."
  By: Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature")
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• "A man, sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair."
  By: Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature")
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• "O friendship! thou fond soother of the human breast, to thee we fly in every calamity; to thee the wretched seek for succor; on thee the care-tired son of misery fondly relies; from thy kind assistance the unfortunate always hopes relief, and may be sure of--disappointment."
  By: Oliver Goldsmith
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• "Friendship, like love, is self-forgetful. The only inequality it knows is one that exalts the object, and humbles self."
  By: Henry Giles
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• "There is a power in love to divine another's destiny better than that other can, and by heroic encouragements, hold him to his task. What has friendship so signal as its sublime attraction to whatever virtue is in us?"
  By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• "Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command."
  By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• "Friendship buys friendship."
  By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• "Old books, old wine, old nankin blue-- All things, in short, to which belong The charm, the, grace that Time makes strong, All these I prize, but (entre nous) Old friends are best."
  By: Austin Dobson
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• "There is a magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no hearts."
  By: Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
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• "The light of friendship is like the light of phosphorus,--seen plainest when all around is dark."
  By: Grace Noll Crowell (Mrs. Norman H. Crowell)
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• "There are three friendships which are advantageous, and three which are injurious. Friendship with the upright; friendship with the sincere; and friendship with the man of much observation: these are advantageous. Friendship with the man of specious airs; friendship with the insinuatingly soft; and friendship with the glib-tongued: these are injurious."
  By: Confucius
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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.]"
  By: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) (often called "Tully" for short), De Amicitia (XIX)
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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.]"
  By: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) (often called "Tully" for short), De Amicitia (VI)
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