"I never could get on with representative individuals--but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might thereforebe possible to be friends."
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Category: Friendship
"A man's fortunes are the fruit of his character. A man's friends are his magnetisms."
"A friend is Janus-faced: he looks to the past and the future. He is the child of all my foregoing hours, the prophet of those to come, and the harbinger of a greater friend."
"Let it be an alliance of two large, formidable natures, mutually beheld, mutually feared, before yet they recognize the deep identity which beneath these disparities unites them."
"We walk alone in the world. Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables."
"Friendship demands a religious treatment. We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected. Reverence is a great partof it."
"A new person is to me a great event, and hinders me from sleep. I have often had fine fancies about persons which have given me delicious hours; but the joy ends in the day; it yields no fruit."
"I hate the prostitution of the name of friendship to signify modish and worldly alliances. I much prefer the company of ploughboysand tin-peddlers, to the silken and perfumed amity which celebrates its days of encounter by a frivolous display, by rides in a curricle, and dinners at the best taverns."
"We over-estimate the conscience of our friend. His goodness seems better than our goodness, his nature finer, his temptations less. Everything that is his,--his name, his form, his dress, books, and instruments,--fancy enhances. Our own thought sounds new and larger from his mouth."
"What a perpetual disappointment is actual society, even of the virtuous and gifted! After interviews have been compassed with longforesight, we must be tormented presently by baffled blows, by sudden, unseasonable apathies, by epilepsies of wit and of animal spirits, in the heyday of friendship and thought. Our faculties do not play us true, and both parties are relieved by solitude."
"Treat your friend as a spectacle."
"I awoke this morning with a devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new. Shall I not call God the Beautiful, who dailyshoweth himself to me in his gifts?"
"Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine,--a possession for all time."
"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."
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