Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few.
To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.
To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it. [Lat., Dulcis inexpertis cultura potentis amici; Expertus metuit.]
You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.
The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.
True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
The world was hers for the reading.
Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship.
A bosom friend - an intimate friend, you know - a really kindred spirit to whom I can confide my inmost soul.
From that moment on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again.
Books became her friends, and there was one for every mood.
In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood.
An intimate friend and a hated enemy have always been indispensable requirements for my emotional life; I have always been able to create them anew, and not infrequently my childish ideal has been so closely approached that friend and enemy coincided in the same person.
I never had intimate friends, and the few who came close are in New York. By which I mean they're dead, because that's where I suppose condemned souls go in order not to endure the truth of their past lives.
We do not always proclaim loudly the most important thing we have to say. Nor do we always privately share it with those closest to us, our intimate friends, those who have been most devotedly ready to receive our confession.
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