Friendship Quotes — page 29

Opposition is true Friendship.

This paper will serve instead of a confidential friend into whose ear I might pour forth the overflowings of my heart. It will not sympathise with my distresses, but then it will not laugh at them, and, if I keep it close, it cannot tell …

There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please — that is as they please or …

2446. The Word Friend is a common Name, and appropriated by most People ; but believe me, thou wilt scarce ever find a Man that gives solid Proof of a true, unfeigned, and uninterested Friendship.

Histories are more full of Examples of the Fidelity of dogs than of Friends.

Know my good friend that no distance can keep anxious lovers long asunder, and that the wonders of former ages may be revived in this

Men met each other with erected look, The steps were higher that they took; Friends to congratulate their friends made haste, And long inveterate foes saluted as they passed.

Great souls by instinct to each other turn, Demand alliance, and in friendship burn

I would rather have your friendship than the love of any other woman in the world!

Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone — but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.

1964. If thou wilt have no Difference with thy Friends; sell them not Horses, nor Goods; and buy nothing of them.

I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I — of my friends as well in silence as in conversation.

The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned; but the friends of liberty always sacrifice their cause, which is only the cause of humanity, to their own spleen, vanity, and self-opinion.

1887. Think thyself happy if thou hast one true Friend; never think of finding another.

"Why," said I — "why should you suppose that I dislike the place?" "You told me so yourself," was the decisive reply. "You said, at least, that you could not live contentedly, without a friend; and that you had no friend here, and no …

Enjoy the blessings Heaven bestows, Assist his friends, forgive his foes; Trust God, and keep his statutes still, Upright and firm, through good and ill;Thankful for all that God has given, Fixing his firmest hopes on heaven; Knowing that …