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by the mysterious gulf that divides time from eternity, between whom there is a constant intercourse, a delightful fellowship. In truth, we have often more communion with the distant than the near.

      Dr. Thomas.

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      Friendship must live by faith and not by sight.

      Eliot.

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      Friends should not be chosen to flatter. The quality we should prize is that rectitude which will shrink from no truth. Intimacies, which increase vanity, destroy friendship.

      Channing.

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      Favors, and especially pecuniary ones, are generally fatal to friendship; for our pride will ever prompt us to lower the value of the gift by diminishing that of the donor. Ingratitude is an effort to recover our own esteem by getting rid of our esteem for our benefactor, whom we look upon as a sort of tooth-drawer that has cured us of one pain by inflicting another.

      Smith.

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      Friendship throws a greater lustre on prosperity, while it lightens adversity by sharing in its griefs and anxieties.

      Cicero.

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      Friendship hath the skill and observation of the best physician; the diligence and vigilance of the best nurse; and the tenderness and patience of the best mother.

      Lord Clarendon.

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      Friendship! The precious gold of life

      By age refined, yet ever new;

      Tried in the crucible of time

      It always rings of service true.

      Friendship! The beauteous soul of life

      Which gladdens youth and strengthens age;

      May it our hearts and lives entwine

      Together on life's fleeting page.

      Shaylor.

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      Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which strengthens with the setting sun of life.

      La Fontaine.

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      Friendship, love, and piety, ought to be handled with a sort of mysterious secrecy; they ought to be spoken of only in the rare moments of perfect confidence.

      Novalis.

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      Few men are calculated for that close connection which we distinguish by the name of friendship, and we well know the difference between a friend and an acquaintance.

      Sterne.

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      Friendship is the nearest thing we know to what religion is. God is love. And to make religion akin to friendship is simply to give it the highest expression conceivable by man.

      Drummond.

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      Friendship is the great chain of human society.

      Howell.

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      Friendship is an allay of our sorrows, the ease of our passions, the discharge of our oppressions, the sanctuary to our calamities, the counsellor of our doubts, the charity of our minds, the emission of our thoughts, the exercise and improvement of what we meditate.

      Taylor.

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      Friendship springs up from sources so subtile and undefinable, that it cannot be forced into particular channels; and whenever the attempt has been made, it has usually been unsuccessful.

      Day.

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      God wills that we have sorrows here,

      And we will share it;

      Whisper thy sorrow in my ear,

      That I may also bear it.

      If anywhere our trouble seems

      To find an end,

      'Tis in the fairy land of dreams,

      Or with a friend.

      Tennyson.

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      Friendship is a union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue.

      Penn.

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      Friendship that makes the least noise is very often the most useful; for which reason I should prefer a prudent friend to a zealous one.

      Addison.

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      Friendship, like love, is but a name

      Unless to one you stint the flame.

      The child, whom many fathers share,

      Hath seldom known a father's care.

      'Tis thus in friendships; who depends

      On many, rarely finds a friend.

      Gay.

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      Friend is a word of royal tone;

      Friend is a poem all alone.

      From the Persian.

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      Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love. It is well worthwhile to learn how to win the heart of man the right way. Force is of no use to make or preserve a friend, who is an animal that is never caught and tamed but by kindness and pleasure. Excite them by your civilities, and show them that you desire nothing more than their satisfaction; oblige with all your soul that friend who has made you a present of his own.

      Socrates.

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      He, who gives pleasure, meets with it; kindness is the bond of friendship, and the book of love; he who sows not, reaps not.

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      Friendship is the holiest of gifts,

      God can bestow nothing more sacred upon us!

      It enhances every joy, mitigates every pain.

      Everyone can have a friend

      Who himself knows how to be a friend.

      Teidge.

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      In this respect friendship is superior to relationship, because from relationship benevolence can be withdrawn, and from friendship it cannot; for with the withdrawal of benevolence the very name of friendship is done away, while that of relationship remains.

      Cicero.

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      I want a warm and faithful friend,

      To cheer the adverse hour;

      Who ne'er to flatter will descend,

      Nor bend the knee to power.

      A friend to chide me when I'm wrong,

      My inmost soul to see;

      And that my friendship prove as strong

      To him as his to me.

      Adams.

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      Friendship's true laws are by this rule expressed,

      Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.

      Pope.

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      Human spirits are only to be drawn together and held together by the living bond of having found something in which they really do agree.

      Greenwell.

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      He has the substance of all bliss

      To whom a virtuous friend is given:

      So sweet harmonious friendship is,

      Add but eternity,

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