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Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.1809–1894
Ultimately the bond of all companionship, wheather in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900
- Marriage
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865
A friend is one before whom you may think aloud.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed. When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other’s worth.
Robert Southey1774–1843
Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Eleanor Roosevelt1884–1962
Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.1809–1894
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 Pope1688–1744Letter, written in collaboration with Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, to Jonathan Swift (14 December 1725)
I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.
Blaise Pascal1623–1662
A friend is able to see you as the wonderful person God created you to be.
APAnn D. Parrish
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1807–1882Drift-wood. QuoteInvestigator (Aug. 19, 2019)
- Enemies
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
William Blake1757–1827Jerusalem The Emanation of The Giant Albion (c. 1803–1820), Ch. 4, plate 91, line 1
- Enemies
- Forgiveness
We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
Joseph Roux1834–1905Meditations of a Parish Priest (1866), Part 9, LIV
Trouble shared is trouble halved.
Dorothy L. Sayers1893–1957The Five Red Herrings (1931)