"Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine,--a possession for all time."
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Category: Friendship
"In the last analysis, love is only the reflection of a man's own worthiness from other men."
"Only be admonished by what you already see, not to strike leagues of friendship with cheap persons, where no friendship can be. Our impatience betrays us into rash and foolish alliances which no God attends."
"My friends have come to me unsought. The great God gave them to me. By oldest right, by the divine affinity of virtue with itself,I find them, or rather not I, but the Deity in me and in them derides and cancels the thick walls of the individual character, relation, age, sex, circumstance, at which he usually connives, and now makes many one."
"The only joy in his being mine, is that the not mine is mine."
"Men have sometimes exchanged names with their friends, as if they would signify that in their friend each loved his own soul."
"I wish that friendship should have feet, as well as eyes and eloquence. It must plant itself on the ground, before it vaults overthe moon. I wish it to be a little of a citizen, before it is quite a cherub."
"I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them. We must have society on our own terms, and admit or exclude it on the slightest cause."
"The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust. It must not surmise or provide for infirmity. It treats its object as a god, that it might deify both."
"It should never fall into something usual and settled, but should be alert and inventive, and add rhyme and reason to what was drudgery."
"I must feel pride in my friend's accomplishments as if they were mine,--and a property in his virtues. I feel as warmly when he ispraised, as the lover when he hears applause of his engaged maiden."
"Almost every man we meet requires some civility,--requires to be humored; he has some fame, some talent, some whim of religion orphilanthropy in his head that is not to be questioned, and which spoils all conversation with him. But a friend is a sane man who exercises not my ingenuity, but me."
"When love ends, we cry out against destiny. When friendship ends, we cry out against our friend."
"Death is hacking away at my address book and party lists."
"An imprudent enemy is less dangerous than an imprudent friend."
"Friends are sometimes boring, but enemies--never."
"Few friendships could survive the moodiness of love affairs."
"A: Your friendship has become a burden. B: Do you prefer to be affronted by my indifference?"
"An ardent lover often makes a cold friend."
"I guess a man's best friend is his mother."
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