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Let us even bid our dearest friends farewell, and defy them, saying, "Who are you? Unhand me: I will be dependent no more." Ah! seest thou not, O brot...more

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As many thoughts in succession substantiate themselves, we shall by and by stand in a new world of our own creation, and no longer strangers and pilgr...more

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

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A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

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An Eastern poet, Ali Ben Abu Taleb, writes with sad truth, —"He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,And he who has one enemy shall me...more

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The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite. The soul environs itself with friends, that it may ent...more

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To stand in true relations with men in a false age is worth a fit of insanity, is it not?

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The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes t...more

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When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know.

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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I...more

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Life goes headlong. We chase some flying scheme, or we are hunted by some fear or command behind us. But if suddenly we encounter a friend, we pause; ...more

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We take care of our health we lay up money we make our roof tight and our clothing sufficient but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting ...more

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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed. When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work but the ...more

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Why should I cumber myself with regrets that the receiver is not capacious? It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide and vain into un...more

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Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.