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Friendship.

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01c. 1593 AD

The second fruit of friendship is healthful and sovereign for the understanding, as the first is for the affections; for friendship maketh indeed a fair day in the affections from storm and tempests, but it maketh daylight in the understanding out of darkness and confusion of thoughts.

Francis Bacon / quote

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02c. 1593 AD

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer.

Francis Bacon / quote

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03c. 1593 AD

There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friend, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his griefs to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Francis Bacon / quote

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04c. 1593 AD

Things are graceful in a friend's mouth which are blushing in a man's own.

Francis Bacon / quote

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05c. 1593 AD

This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects, for it redoubleth joys and cutteth griefs in halves.

Francis Bacon / quote

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06c. 1790 AD

True friendship often shows itself in refusing at the right time, and love often grants a hurtful good.

Goethe / quote

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07c. 1593 AD

Unmarried men are best friends, best masters, best servants, but not always best subjects; for they are light to run away, and almost all fugitives are of that condition.

Francis Bacon / quote

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08c. 1842 AD

We cannot part with our friends. We cannot let our angels go. We do not see that they only go out that archangels may come in. We are idolaters of the old. We do not believe in the richness of the soul, in its proper eternity and omnipresence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson / quote

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09c. 1790 AD

We must first cross a valley before we regain a favourable and cheerful height; meanwhile, let us see how we can stroll through it with our friends pleasantly and profitably.

Goethe / quote

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10c. 1842 AD

We want but two or three friends, but these we cannot do without, and they serve us in every thought we think.

Ralph Waldo Emerson / quote

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11c. 83 AD

When the strong box contains no more, ... / Both friends and flatterers shun the door.

Plutarch / quote

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12c. 1790 AD

Where friends are in earnest, each day brings its own gain, so that at last the year, when summed up, is of incalculable advantage. Details in reality constitute the life; results may be valuable, but they are more surprising than useful.

Goethe / quote

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13c. 1790 AD

Who does not in his friends behold the world, / Deserves not that the world should hear of him.

Goethe / quote

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14c. 1593 AD

Whosoever, in the frame of his nature and affections, is unfit for friendship, he taketh it of the beast, and not from humanity.

Francis Bacon / quote

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15c. 1590 AD

Will is deaf, and hears no heedful friends.

William Shakespeare / quote

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16c. 32 AD

He that is a friend to himself is a friend to all men.

Seneca / quote

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17c. 32 AD

True friends are the whole world to one another; and he that is a friend to himself is also a friend to mankind. Even in my studies the greatest delight I take is of imparting it to others; for there is no relish to me in the possession of anything without a partner.

Seneca / quote

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18c. 75 BC

Friendship throws a greater lustre on prosperity, while it lightens adversity by sharing in its griefs and troubles.

Cicero / quote

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19c. 1790 AD

An absent friend gives us friendly company when we are well assured of his happiness.

Goethe / quote

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20c. 1590 AD

I'll give money to any well deserving friend, but in the matter of business, I'll cavil on the ninth part of a hair.

William Shakespeare / quote

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21c. 32 AD

He was never a friend who ceased to be so—for a slight cause.

Seneca / quote

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22c. 1590 AD

I am not of that feather to shake off my friend when he must need 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 / quote

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23c. 1842 AD

The ornaments of a home are the friends who frequent it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson / quote

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24c. 1842 AD

Give all to love; Obey thy heart; Friends, kindred, days, Estate, good-fame, Plans, credit, and the Muse,— Nothing refuse ... Cling with life to the maid; But when the surprise, First vague shadow of surmise Flits across her bosom young Of a joy apart from thee, Free be she, fancy-free; Nor thou detain her vesture’s hem Nor the palest rose she flung From her summer diadem. Though thou loved her as thyself, As a self of purer clay, Though her parting dims the day, Stealing grace from all alive; Heartily know, When half-gods go The gods arrive.

Ralph Waldo Emerson / quote

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