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Friendship Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.
- Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. he whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you…
- That friendship may be at once fond and lasting, there must not only be equal virtue on each part, but virtue of the same kind;…
- He endearing elegance of female friendship.
- Friendship is seldom lasting but between equals, or where the superiority on one side is reduced by some equivalent advantage on the other.
- Every man has frequent grievances which only the solicitude of friendship will discover and remedy, and which would remain for ever unheeded in the mighty…
- No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance, or to extinguish the desire of fond…
- To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of…
- Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both…
- Friendship is not always the sequel of obligation....
- The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal.
- The great effect of friendship is beneficence, yet by the first act of uncommon kindness it is endangered.
- Friendship, compounded of esteem and love, derives from one its tenderness and its permanence from the other.
- Officious, innocent, sincere, Of every friendless name the friend.
- A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
- The friendship which is to be practised or expected by common mortals, must take its rise from mutual pleasure, and must end when the power…
- They whose activity of imagination is often shifting the scenes of expectation, are frequently subject to such sallies of caprice as make all their actions…
- I am not able to instruct you. I can only tell that I have chosen wrong. I have passed my time in study without experience;…
- Friendship, peculiar boon of Heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied.
- Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
- Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
- The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep…
- I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.
- There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
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- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. — Aristotle
- He who hath many friends hath none. — Aristotle
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. — Aristotle
- Friendship is essentially a partnership. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle