Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.
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It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.
Adversity is the touchstone of friendship.
It isn't kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an audience.
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
Love is friendship caught on fire.
Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode it is rather a life.
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another What You, too Thought I was the only one.
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one.
To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship.
Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
If we are to judge of love by the consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
May the hinges of our friendship never grow rusty.
Honest differences of opinion should never be permitted to destroy a friendship.
Friendship is the golden thread that ties the hearts of all hearts of all the world.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence about language.
Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.
Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
Do not be content with showing friendship in words alone, let your heart burn with loving kindness for all who may cross your path.
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
Friendship improves hapiness and reduces misery, by doubting our joys and dividing our grief.
What importance can we attach to the things of this world? Friendship? It disappears when the one who is liked comes to grief, or the one who likes becomes powerful. Love? it is deceived, fleeting, or guilty. Fame? You share it with mediocrity or crime. Fortune? Could that frivolity be counted a blessing? All that remains are those so-called happy days that flow past unnoticed in the obscurity of domestic cares, leaving man with the desire neither to lose his life nor to begin it over.
Friendship demands attention.
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another people are friends in spots.
Friendships that have stood the test of time and change are surely best.
Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity.
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
Love is blind friendship closes its eyes.
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache do be my enemy--for friendship's sake.
Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is slow-ripening fruit.
The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.
The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, love do not require coupons.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
My father and he had one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether.
Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph with time it fades.
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
I do not believe the expenditure of $2.50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author.
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
True friendship is never serene.
The finest kind of friendship is between people who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
If we judge of love by its usual effects, it resembles hatred more than friendship.
Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love.
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
Though friendship is not quick to burn, It is explosive stuff.
An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.
The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.
Real friendship is shown in times of trouble prosperity is full of friends.
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
A hedge between keeps friendship green.
Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and understanding.
Friendship is not possible between two women, one of whom is very well dressed.
Friendship multiplies the good in life and divides the evil.
Where you find true friendship, You find true love.
It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... it has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival.
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility never an opportunity.
Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
Love will enter cloaked in friendship's name.
True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
When someone allows you to bear his burdens, you have found deep friendship.
I've learned that true friendship continues to grow, Even over the longest distance. Same goes for true love.
Friendship is a horizon-- which expands whenever we approach it.
True friendship is like a rose. We can't realize it's beauty until it fades.
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship--never.
Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.
Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend.
Friendship is love with understanding.
Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of inertia.
Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Friendship is constant in all other things
Save in the office and affairs of love:
Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues;
Let every eye negotiate for itself
And trust no agent.
Save in the office and affairs of love:
Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues;
Let every eye negotiate for itself
And trust no agent.
He removes the greatest ornament of friendship, who takes away from it respect.
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Contests allow no excuses, no more do friendships.
To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.
Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are throughout persuaded of each other's worth.
Love is friendship set on fire.
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.