"Friendship is infinitely better than kindness."
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"He removes the greatest ornament of friendship who takes away from it respect."
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"Friends are necessary to a happy life. When friendship deserts us, we are as helpless as a ship left by the tide high upon the shore. When friendship returns to us, it's as though the tide came back, giving us buoyancy and freedom."
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"No man is the whole of himself; his friends are the rest of him."
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"The thing that makes our friendships so short and changeable is that the qualities and dispositions of the soul are very hard to know, and those of the understanding and wit very easy."
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"Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!"
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"For character too is a process and an unfolding. . . among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful. . . ."
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"We have learned the simple truth, as Emerson said that the only way to have a friend is to be one. We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion or mistrust or with fear."
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"The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend."
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"I can never think of promoting my convenience at the expense of a friend's interest and inclination."
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"[It] is the juvenal period of life when friendships are formed, and habits established, that will stick by one."
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"Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . ."
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"Friendship is evanescent in every man's experience, and remembered like heat lightning in past summers."
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"Friendship is never established as an understood relation. It is a miracle which requires constant proofs. It is an exercise of the purest imagination and of the rarest faith!"
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"One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then"
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"The only danger in Friendship is that it will end."
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"How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we might go and meet their ideal cousins."
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"Friendship is the unspeakable joy and blessing that result to two or more individuals who from constitution sympathize. Such natures are liable to no mistakes, but will know each other through thick and thin. Between two by nature alike and fitted to sympathize, there is no veil, and there can be no obstacle. Who are the estranged? Two friends explaining."
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"I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For who has sight so keen and strong, That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroke; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend."
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"My designs and labors and aspirations are my only friends."
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