Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!
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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters read more
A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely.
My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
To the world you are just one person, but to one person you could mean the world.
To the world you are just one person, but to one person you could mean the world.
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it read more
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate now knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.
Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.
Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
