"Friends are the leaders of the bosom, being more ourselves than we are, and we complement our affections in theirs."
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"Neither old people nor sour people seem to make friends easily; for there is little that is pleasant in them."
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"Of friends, however humble, scorn not one."
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"Oh, be my friend, and teach me to be thine!"
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"We want but two or three friends, but these we cannot do without, and they serve us in every thought we think."
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"My joy in friends, those sacred people, is my consolation."
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"Treat your friend as a spectacle."
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"O friend, my bosom said, Through thee alone the sky is arched. Through thee the rose is red; All things through thee take nobler form, And look beyond the earth, The mill-round of our fate appears A sun-path in thy worth. Me too thy nobleness has taught To master my despair; The fountains of my hidden life Are through thy friendship fair."
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"The genius of life is friendly to the noble, and, in the dark, brings them friends from far."
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"I see it only that thyself is here, and art and nature, hope and fate, friends, angels and the supreme being shall not be absent from the chamber where thou sittest."
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"An old friend never can be found, and nature has provided that he cannot easily be lost."
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"People who plead with you for favours May eventually prove to be great flatterers. Your friends are only those Who all the time cheerfully support Your heart's aspiration-flames."
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"The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget. And a man who has a few friends, or one who has a dozen (if there be any one so wealthy on this earth), cannot forget on how precarious a base his happiness reposes; and how by a stroke or two of fate --a death, a few light words, a piece of stamped paper, a woman's bright eyes --he may be left, in a month, destitute of all."
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"The best way to raise positive children in a negative world is to have positive parents who love them unconditionally and serve as excellent role models."
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"If we take the freedom to put a friend under our microscope, we thereby insulate him from many of his true relations, magnify his peculiarities, inevitably tear him into parts, and, of course, patch him very clumsily together again. What wonder, then, should we be frightened by the aspect of a monster."
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"They who dare to ask anything of a friend, by their very request seem to imply that they would do anything for the sake of that friend."
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"There is no treasure the which may be compared unto a faithful friend; Gold some decayeth, and worldly wealth consumeth, and wasteth in the winde; But love once planted in a perfect and pure minde indureth weale and woe; The frownes of fortune, come they never so unkinde, cannot the same overthrowe."
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"There is no more sure tie between friends than when they are united in their objects and wishes."
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"Men are inconsolable concerning the treachery of their friends or the deceptions of their enemies; and yet they are often very highly satisfied to be both deceived and betrayed by their own selves."
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"It is always the best friends who are neglected and ignored."
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