~ [W]e all need friends with whom we can speak of our deepest concerns, and who do not fear to speak the truth in love to us.
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~ The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
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~ In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends
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~ The rule for us all is perfectly simple. Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.
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~ Alone, all alone
Nobody, but nobody
Can make it out here alone.
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~ He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
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~ Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners. Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.
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~ Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection there will be no opposition between interior solitude and friendship, quite the reverse. It is even by this infallible sign that you will recognize it.
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~ There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.
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~ Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.
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~ The bird a nest
the spider a web
the human friendship. ~
~ It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
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