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“No medicine is more valuable , none more efficacious, none better suited to the cure of our temporal ills than a friend to whom we may turn for consolation in time of trouble, and with whom we may share happiness in time of joy.”

“When the only bond between close friends is attachment, then even a minor issue may cause one's projections to change. As soon as our projections change, the attachment disappears, because that attachment was based solely on projection and expectation. It is possible to have compassion without attachment, and similarly, to have anger without hatred.”

May Causes Friendship Compassion Issues Expectations Hatred Disappear Attachment Minors Projection Close Friends

Author:Dalai Lama

“The growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.”

May Growth Friendship Affair True Friend Lifelong True Friendship

Book:The Country of the Pointed Firs

Source: The Country of the Pointed Firs

“Though most of the friendships of the world ill deserve the name of friendships; yet a man may make use of them on occasion, as of a traffic whose returns are uncertain, and in which 'tis usual to be cheated.”

Men World May Use Names Friendship Return Deserve Ill Occasions Usual Uncertain Traffic Cheated

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.”

Way Trying May Friendship Psychology Caring

Book:Choice Theory: A New Psychology of Personal Freedom

Source: Choice Theory: A New Psychology of Personal Freedom

“In Friendship we only see those faults which may be prejudicial to our friends. In love we see no faults but those by which we suffer ourselves.”

May Suffering Friendship Faults

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“Doubtless a good general rule for close friendships, where confidences are freely exchanged, is that what one is not informed about, one may not inquire about.”

May Friendship Close Friends Close Friendship

Author:Louis Kronenberger

“The soil of friendship is worn out with constant use. Habit may still attach us to each other, but we feel ourselves fettered by it. Old friends might be compared to old married people without the tie of children.”

People Feels May Children Stills Use Might Friendship Habit Married Constant Ties Soil Worn Old Friends Worn Out

Book:The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt

Source: The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt

“A wound in the friendship of young persons, as in the bark of young trees, may be so grown over as to leave no scar. The case is very different in regard to old persons and old timber. The reason of this may be accountable from the decline of the social passions, and the prevalence of spleen, suspicion, and rancor towards the latter part of life.”

Source: Essays on men and manners. A description of the Leasowes, the seat of the late William Shenstone, esq., by R. Dodsley. Verses to Mr. Shenstone

“The friendship I have conceived will not be impaired by absence; but it may be no unpleasing circumstance to brighten the chain by a renewal of the covenant.”

May Friendship Circumstances Absence Chains Renewal Covenant

Book:Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral and Religious

Source: Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral and Religious

“Friendship is made up of esteem and pleasure; pity is composed of sorrow and contempt: the mind may for some time fluctuate between them, but it can never entertain both at once.”

Mind May Made Friendship Pleasure Sorrow Pity Esteem Contempt

Book:The vicar of Wakefield, poems, and essays

Source: The vicar of Wakefield, poems, and essays

“O friendship! thou fond soother of the human breast, to thee we fly in every calamity; to thee the wretched seek for succor; on thee the care-tired son of misery fondly relies; from thy kind assistance the unfortunate always hopes relief, and may be sure of--disappointment.”

Humans Kind May Care Friendship Son Tired Misery Disappointment Thee Rely Relief Breasts Unfortunate Assistance Wretched Calamity

Book:The Miscellaneous Works: Letters from a citizen of the world, to his friend in the East. A familiar introduction to the study of natural history

Source: The Miscellaneous Works: Letters from a citizen of the world, to his friend in the East. A familiar introduction to the study of natural history

“Let me take up your metaphor. Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat or violence or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after. The more graceful and ornamental it was, the more clearly do we discern the hopelessness of restoring it to its former state. Coarse stones, if they are fractured, may be cemented again; precious stones, never.”

Ifs Wells May States Friendship Violence Broken Stones Let Me Metaphor Accidents Former Heat Trusted Hopelessness Flawed Restoring Coarse Vases Precious Stones

Book:The Works of Walter Savage Landor

Source: The Works of Walter Savage Landor

“Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time. The very reverse may be said of love. In a great degree, love and friendship cannot subsist in the same bosom; even when inspired by different objects they weaken or destroy each other, and for the same object can only be felt in succession. The vain fears and fond jealousies, the winds which fan the flame of love, when judiciously or artfully tempered, are both incompatible with the tender confidence and sincere respect of friendship.”

Source: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

“When the first time of love is over, there comes a something better still. Then comes that other love; that faithful friendship which never changes, and which will accompany you with its calm light through the whole of life. It is only needful to place yourself so that if it may come, and then it comes of itself. And then everything turns and changes itself to the best.”

Ifs Firsts May Stills Whole Light Turns Friendship Love Is First Time Calm Faithful Never Change Something Better Accompany Accompany You

Author:Fredrika Bremer

“One may be my very good friend, and yet not of my opinion.”

May Friendship Opinion Very Good Good Friend Very Good Friends

Book:Sociable Letters

Source: Sociable Letters

“I find too there are few Friendships in the World Marriage-Proof; especially when the Person our Friend marries has not a Soul particularly capable of the Tenderness of that Endearment ... we may generally conclude the Marriage of a Friend to be the Funeral of a Friendship.”

World May Persons Soul Friendship Capable Proof Funeral Tenderness Endearment

Author:Katherine Philips

“Lovers and even some family members may come and go but the friendships that take root abide. Sometimes the best of what is true survives as if it had an independent will: The coals of friendship keep themselves alive until something happens to rekindle them.”

Ifs May Sometimes Happens Friendship Alive Lovers Members Roots Independent Things Happen Coal Comes And Goes Family Members

Author:Joan Frank

“Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions. What we have missed long enough to want it, we value more when it is regained; but that which has been lost till it is forgotten will be found at last with little gladness, and with still less if a substitute has supplied the place.”

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius

“To those who have lived long together, everything heard and everything seen recalls some pleasure communicated, some benefit conferred, some petty quarrel or some slight endearment. Esteem of great powers, or amiable qualities newly discovered may embroider a day or a week, but a friendship of twenty years is interwoven with the texture of life.”

Source: The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

“Although a friend may remain faithful in misfortune, yet none but the very best and loftiest will remain faithful to us after our errors and our sins.”

May Friendship Sin Errors Faithful Misfortunes

Book:The Fall of Man, and Other Sermons Preached Before the University of Cambridge, Etc

Source: The Fall of Man, and Other Sermons Preached Before the University of Cambridge, Etc

“It may be worth noticing as a curious circumstance, when persons past forty before they were at all acquainted form together a very close intimacy of friendship. For grafts of old wood to take, there must be a wonderful congeniality between the trees.”

May Persons Together Past Form Friendship Wonderful Tree Circumstances Woods Curious Intimacy Forty Noticing Congeniality Old Wood

Book:The Essays ... Revised ... by Thomas Markby ... Second Edition

Source: The Essays ... Revised ... by Thomas Markby ... Second Edition

“Nothing opens the heart like a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes...and whatever lies upon the heart.”

Heart May Joy Lying Friendship Grief True Friend Impart

Author:Francis Bacon

“A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father; to his wife, but as a husband; to his enemy, but upon terms: whereas a friend may speak, as the case requires, and not as it sorteth with the person.”

Men May Persons Father Speak Term Friendship Enemy Cases Wife Son Husband Bitterness Father Son

Book:The Essays ... Revised ... by Thomas Markby ... Second Edition

Source: The Essays ... Revised ... by Thomas Markby ... Second Edition

“A shepherd may be a very able, trusty, and good shepherd, without a sweetheart-better, perhaps, than with one. But what is he without his dog?”

May Able Friendship Dog Shepherds Sweetheart Good Shepherd

Book:The Shepherd's Calendar

Source: The Shepherd's Calendar

“Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.”

Knows May Doe Literature Friendship Inspiring Money Friends Jane

Author:Jane Austen

“Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.”

Source: Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson

“Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.”

May Long Friendship Love Is Absence Destroyed Life And Love Like Love Lost Friendship Intermission

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson: The Adventurer and Idler

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson: The Adventurer and Idler

“A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.”

Men Wells May Littles Form Sex Friendship Endure Wedding Anniversary Lasting Friendship Antipathy Assisting Long Friendship Platonic Friendship

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.”

“The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.”

Source: Southey's Common-place Book

“It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.”

Knows May Turns Opportunity Friendship Pay Enemy Iron Lady Friends And Enemies

Author:Margaret Thatcher

“A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.”

“Do not be content with showing friendship in words alone, let your heart burn with loving kindness for all who may cross your path.”

Heart May Friendship Kindness Path Crosses Loving Kindness

Author:Bahá'u'lláh

“We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.”

“May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.”

May I Can God Humor Funny Friendship Enemy Friends My Friends Anger Best Friend

Author:Voltaire

“Do not assume that he who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, he would never have been able to find these words.”

May Has Beens Sometimes Able Friendship Simple Sadness Comfort Quiet Difficulty Remains Assuming Simplicity Assumption Emo

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind; it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate — and quickly.”

Ifs Way Mind May Eye Hate Peace Friendship Enemy Offers Villain

Book:Time Enough for Love

Source: Time Enough for Love

“A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face.”

May Faces Waiting Friendship Behinds Friends Stranger Funny Friend

Book:Letter to My Daughter

Source: Letter to My Daughter

“Wherever it is you may be, it is your friends who make your world.”

World Love May Friendship My Best Friend Friendship Memories One Line Friendship Inspirational Friendship True Friend Is Easy Friendship Short Best Friend

Author:Chris Bradford

“When you part from your friend, you grieve not; For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.”

May Friendship Friends Mountain Absence Grieving Hiking Climbers

Book:The Prophet - Der Prophet

Source: The Prophet - Der Prophet

“Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.”

Love May Doe Grows Friendship Love You

Author:Lord Byron

“Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.”

Love May Friendship Community Walks Behinds Fronts Friends Equal My Friends Following Equality Happy Grieving Good Friend Real Friends My Best Friend True Friend True Friendship My Friendship Your Best Friend About Friendship Love And Friendship Friendship Love Friendship Memories One Line Friendship Best Friendship Friendship Day Cute Friendship Inspirational Friendship Friend Love Great Friendship Happy Friendship True Friend Is Happy Friendship Day True Best Friend Beautiful Friendship Not Friends Friends For Life Friendship Over Hearts And Friends Friendship And Life Wonderful Friendship Sweet Friendship Funny Best Friend Easy Friendship Short Friend Vocabulary Words Long Friendship Cute Best Friend Awesome Friendship True Friendship And Life Meaningful Friendship Short Best Friend Friendship Forever Life Love And Friendship Amazing Friendship Being A True Friend Songs And Friendship Life Love Friendship Special Friendship Bff Forever Romantic Friendship Meaning Of Friendship

Author:Albert Camus

“Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones”

“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.”

“A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.”

“The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.”

World May Friendship Rounds Funny Friend Happy Friendship Day Cute Best Friend World Is Round Round World

Author:Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“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 companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.”

Men Love May Real Friendship Quality He Man Companion Real Friends Friendship Day Friend Love Happy Friendship Qualities Of A Friend

Author:James Boswell

“Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.”

Men Giving Heart May Real Friendship Authority Real Friends

Author:Thomas F. Wilson