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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of each other.: Joseph Addison

Our friends see not our faults, or conceal them, or soften them by their representation.: Joseph Addison

Such as are treated ill, and upbraided falsely, find out an intimate friend that will hear their complaints, and endeavour to soothe their secret resentments.: Joseph Addison

A friendship that makes the least noise is very often the most useful; for which reason I should prefer a prudent friend to a zealous one.: Joseph Addison

Tully has justly exposed a precept, that a man should live with his friend in such a manner that if he became his enemy it should not be in his power to hurt him.: Joseph Addison

We ought always to make choice of persons of such worth and honour for our friends, that if they should ever cease to be so, they will not abuse our confidence, nor give us cause to fear them as enemies.: Joseph Addison

Injuries from friends fret and gall more, and the memory of them is not so easily obliterated.: John Arbuthnot

A similitude of nature and manners in such a degree as we are capable of, must tie the holy knot, and rivet the friendship between us.: Francis Atterbury

A principal fruit of friendship is the ease and discharge of the fulness of the heart which passions of all kinds do cause and induce.: Francis Bacon

No receipt openeth the heart but a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes, suspicions, counsels, and whatsoever lieth upon the heart to oppress it, in a kind of civil shrift or confession.: Francis Bacon

It is better to decide a difference between our enemies than our friends; for one of our friends will most likely become our enemy; but, on the other hand, one of our enemies will probably become our friend.: Bias

A long novitiate of acquaintance should precede the vows of friendship.: Lord Bolingbroke

False friendship is like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.: Robert Burton

The attachments of mirth are but the shadows of that true friendship of which the sincere affections of the heart are the substance.: Robert Burton

Friendship ought not to be unripped, but unstitched.: Cato

Real friendship is a slow grower, and never thrives unless engrafted upon a stock of known and reciprocal merit.: Lord Chesterfield

Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning usefulness in which all mankind are agreed.: Cicero

Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy, and the dividing of our grief.: Cicero

Friendship hath the skill and observation of the best physician; the diligence and vigilance of the best nurse; and the tenderness and patience of the best mother.: Lord Clarendon

Disparity in age seems a greater obstacle to an intimate friendship than inequality of fortune.: Jeremy Collier

A friend who relates his success talks himself into a new pleasure, and by opening his misfortunes leaves part of them behind him.: Jeremy Collier

An ambiguous expression, a little chagrin, or a start of passion, is not enough to take leave upon.: Jeremy Collier

The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity; as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.: Charles Caleb Colton

Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; and when they hear us praised by others, will ascribe it to sinister and interested motives if they can.: Charles Caleb Colton

It ill corresponds with a profession of friendship to refuse assistance to a friend in the time of need.: George Crabb

I forsake an argument on which I could delight to dwell; I mean your judgment in your choice of friends.: John Dryden

Let friendship creep gently to a height: if it rush to it, it may soon run itself out of breath.: Thomas Fuller

In all the losses of our friends, says an European philosopher, we first consider how much our own welfare is affected by their departure, and moderate our real grief just in the same proportion.: Oliver Goldsmith

There cannot be a more worthy improvement of friendship than in a fervent opposition to the sins of those whom we profess to love.: Bishop Joseph Hall

He who has made the acquisition of a judicious and sympathizing friend may be said to have doubled his mental resources.: Robert Hall

It is not merely as a source of pleasure, or as a relief from pain, that virtuous friendship is to be coveted; it is at least as much to be recommended by its utility.: Robert Hall

The friendship of high and sanctified spirits loses nothing by death but its alloy; failings disappear, and the virtues of those whose “faces we shall behold no more” appear greater and more sacred when beheld through the shades of the sepulchre.: Robert Hall

Friendship contracted with the wicked decreases from hour to hour, like the early shadow of the morning; but friendship with the virtuous will increase like the shadow of evening, till the sun of life shall set.: Johann Gottfried Herder

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the declining sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.: Washington Irving

A man should keep his friendship in constant repair.: Dr. Samuel Johnson

Desertion of a calumniated friend is an immoral action.: Dr. Samuel Johnson

Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.: La Fontaine

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which strengthens with the setting sun of life.: La Fontaine

He that has no friend and no enemy is one of the vulgar, and without talents, power, or energy.: Johann Kaspar Lavater

You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are characters decidedly bad.: Johann Kaspar Lavater

Life is no life without the blessing of a friendly and an edifying conversation.: Roger L’Estrange

It’s uncharitable, unchristian, and inhuman, to pass a peremptory sentence of condemnation upon a try’d friend, where there is any room left for a more favourable judgment.: Roger L’Estrange

Every fiction since Homer has taught friendship, patriotism, generosity, contempt of death. These are the highest virtues; and the fictions which taught them were, therefore, of the highest, though not of unmixed, utility.: Sir James Mackintosh

Whilst you are prosperous, you can number many friends; but when the storm comes, you are left alone.: Ovid

I have been endeavouring very busily to raise a friendship, which the first breath of any ill-natured by-stander could puff away.: Alexander Pope

I will not quarrel with the present age: it has done enough for me in making and keeping you two my friends.: Alexander Pope

I am the better acquainted with you for absence, as men are with themselves for affliction: absence does but hold off a friend to make one see him truly.: Alexander Pope

I have nothing left but to gather up the reliques of a wreck, and look about me to see how few friends I have.: Alexander Pope

I am a man of desperate fortunes, that is a man whose friends are dead; for I never aimed at any other fortune than in friends.: Alexander Pope

There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship; and indeed friendship itself is only a part of virtue.: Alexander Pope

We learn our virtues from the bosom friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real form from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.: Jean Paul F. Richter

There is perhaps no time at which we are disposed to think so highly of a friend as when we find him standing higher than we expected in the esteem of others.: Sir Walter Scott

Keep thy friend under thy own life’s key.: William Shakespeare

What need we have any friends, if we should ne’er have need of them?: William Shakespeare

Thou dost conspire against thy friend, Iago, If thou but think’st him wrong’d, and mak’st his ear A stranger to thy thoughts.: William Shakespeare

A friend should bear his friend’s infirmities.: William Shakespeare

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love.: William Shakespeare

To buy his favour I extend this friendship: If he will take it, so; if not, adieu; And, for my love, I pray you wrong me not.: William Shakespeare

I am not of that feather, to shake off My friend when he most needs me. I do know him, A gentleman that well deserves a help, Which he shall have: I’ll pay the debt and free him.: William Shakespeare

The lightsome countenance of a friend giveth such an inward decking to the house where it lodgeth, as proudest palaces have cause to envy the gilding.: Sir Philip Sidney

Procure not friends in haste, and when thou hast a friend part not with him in haste.: Solon

Love is the greatest of human affections, and friendship the noblest and most refined improvement of love.: Robert South

He creates those sympathies and suitablenesses of nature that are the foundation of all true friendship, and by his providence brings persons so affected together.: Robert South

Many offer at the effects of friendship, but they do not last: they are promising in the beginning, but they fail and jade and tire in the prosecution.: Robert South

Whoever has a faithful friend to guide him in the dark passages of life, may carry his eyes to another man’s head, and yet see never the worse.: Robert South

Even reckoning makes lasting friends; and the way to make reckonings even is to make them often.: Robert South

It is a noble and great thing to cover the blemishes and to excuse the failings of a friend; to draw a curtain before his stains, and to display his perfections; to bury his weaknesses in silence, but to proclaim his virtues upon the house-top.: Robert South

If matter of fact breaks out with too great an evidence to be denied, why, still there are other lenitives, that friendship will apply before it will be brought to the decretory rigours of a condemning sentence.: Robert South

Charity itself commands us, where we know no ill, to think well of all; but friendship, that always goes a pitch higher, gives a man a peculiar right and claim to the good opinion of his friend.: Robert South

All apologies for and alleviations of faults, though they are the heights of humanity, yet they are not the favours, but the duties, of friendship.: Robert South

This friendship is of that strength as to remain unshaken by such assaults, which yet are strong enough to shake down and annihilate the friendship of little puny minds.: Robert South

When a man shall have done all that he can to make one his friend, and emptied his purse to create endearment between them, he may, in the end, be forced to write vanity and frustration.: Robert South

Those, though in highest place, who slight and disoblige their friends, shall infallibly come to know the value of them, by having none when they shall most need them.: Robert South

An hasty word, or an indiscreet action, does not dissolve the bond, but that friendship may be still sound in heart, and so outgrow and wear off these little distempers.: Robert South

Joy, like a ray of the sun, reflects with a greater ardour and quickness when it rebounds upon a man from the breast of his friend.: Robert South

Nature and common reason, in all difficulties where prudence or courage are required, do rather incite us to fly for assistance to a single person than a multitude.: Jonathan Swift

A good man is the best friend, and therefore soonest to be chosen, longest to be retained, and indeed never to be parted with, unless he ceases to be that for which he was chosen.: Jeremy Taylor

Consider the rules of friendship, lest justice turn into unmercifulness.: Jeremy Taylor

Something like home that is not home is to be desired: it is found in the house of a friend.: Sir William Temple

True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation.: Theophrastus

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