How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we might go and meet their ideal cousins.
If one is estranged from oneself, then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others.
A friend, therefore, is a sort of paradox in nature. I who alone am, I who see nothing in nature whose existence I can affirm with equal evidence to my own, behold now the semblance of my being, in all its height, variety, and curiosity, reiterated in a foreign form; so that a friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success.
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
Friends are the most important part of your life. Treasure the tears, treasure the laughter, but most importantly, treasure the memories.
Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.
Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends.
A joy shared is a joy doubled.
True friendship is never serene.
Oooh I get by with a little help from my friends.
Friends are the sunshine of life.
Friends are relatives you make for yourself.
Say what you want about aging, it's still the only way to have old friends.
Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.
I loved my friend for his gentleness, his candor, his good repute, his freedom even from my own livelier manner, his calm and reasonable kindness. It was not any particular talent that attracted me to him, or i anything striking whatsoever. I should say in one word, it was his goodness.
It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief, enemies with the worst intentions, or friends with the best.
A visitor is a friend, he brings news, good or bad, which is bread to the hungry minds in lonely places. A real friend who comes to the house is a heavenly messenger, who brings the panis angelorum.
A real friend isn't capable of feeling sorry for you.
Too late we learn, a man must hold his friend Unjudged, accepted, trusted to the end.
When friends grow cold, and the converse of intimates languishes into vapid civility and commonplace, these only continue the unaltered countenance of happier days, and cheer us with that true friendship which never deceived hope, nor deserted sorrow.
When we are young, friends are, like everything else, a matter of course. In the old days we know what it means to have them.
How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.
Friendship is the holiest of gifts; God can bestow nothing more sacred upon us! It enhances every joy, mitigates every pain. Everyone can have a friend, Who himself knows how to be a friend.
The only rose without thorns is friendship.
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