Too late we learn, a man must hold his friend
Unjudged, accepted, trusted to the end."
- [John Boyle O'Reilly]
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Friends have all things in common."
- [Plato]
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Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods."
- [Artistotle]
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My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me."
- [Henry Ford]
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The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life."
- [Edward Everett Hale]
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Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them."
- [Oliver Wendell Holmes]
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The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?"
- [Henry David Thoreau]
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Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannogt congeal in winter."
- [James Fenimore Cooper]
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Those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts."
- [Fracis Bacon]
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Friendship without self interest is one of the rare and beautiful things in life."
- [James Francis Byrnes]
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Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed."
- [Cicero]
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I do not wish to treat friendships daintily, but with the roughest courage. When they are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work, but the solidest thing we know."
- [Ralph Waldo Emerson]
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Do not save your loving speeches
For your friends till they are dead;
Do not write them on their tombstones,
Speak them rather now instead.
- [Anna Cummins]
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