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Alexander Pope1688–1744

Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.

Alexander Pope on friendship

Letter, written in collaboration with Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, to Jonathan Swift (14 December 1725)

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How happy is the blameless Vestal’s lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d.
Eloisa to Abelard (1717), Line 207.
To err is human, to forgive divine.
An Essay on Criticism (1711)In context
- Forgiveness
Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
Imitations of Horace (1733–1738), Epilogue to the Satires, Dialogue I, line 136.
- Morality

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More about friendship

Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
Albert Camus1913–1960
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968Martin Luther King, Jr., The Trumpet of Conscience, Steeler Lecture, November 1967.
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one!’
C. S. Lewis1898–1963

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