"Friends are like money, easier made than kept."
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"Friends should be like books, easy to find when you need them, but seldom used."
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"Friendship buys friendship."
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"Then, though I prize my friends, I cannot afford to talk with them and study their visions, lest I lose my own. It would indeed give me a certain household joy to quit this lofty seeking, this spiritual astronomy, or search of stars, and come down to warm sympathies with you; but then I know well I shall mourn always the vanishing of my mighty gods."
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"We over-estimate the conscience of our friend. His goodness seems better than our goodness, his nature finer, his temptations less. Everything that is his,--his name, his form, his dress, books, and instruments,--fancy enhances. Our own thought sounds new and larger from his mouth."
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"A divine person is the prophecy of the mind; a friend is the hope of the heart."
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"If your friend has displeased you, you shall not sit down to consider it, for he has already lost all memory of the passage, and has doubled his power to serve you, and, ere you can rise up again, will burden you with blessings."
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"It is one of the biggest blessing that you can be stupid with your true friends and behave like you shame to do elsewhere"
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"Our chief want in life, is, someone who shall make us do what we can. This is the service of a friend. With him we are easily great."
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"The wise man, the true friend, the finished character, we seek everywhere, and only find in fragments."
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"I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them."
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"Friendship is an order of nobility; from its revelations we come more worthily into nature."
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"Every man passes his life in the search after friendship."
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"The service a man renders his friend is trivial and selfish, compared with the service he knows his friend stood in readiness to yield him, alike before he had begun to serve his friend, and now also. Compared with that good-will I bear my friend, the benefit it is in my power to render him seems small."
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"The only joy in his being mine, is that the not mine is mine."
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"My friends have come to me unsought. The great God gave them to me. By oldest right, by the divine affinity of virtue with itself,I find them, or rather not I, but the Deity in me and in them derides and cancels the thick walls of the individual character, relation, age, sex, circumstance, at which he usually connives, and now makes many one."
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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?"
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"We never touch but at points."
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"You shall not come nearer a man by getting into his house."
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"Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions, because we have made them a texture of wine and dreams, instead of the toughfibre of the human heart. The laws of friendship are austere and eternal, of one web with the laws of nature and of morals."
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