Wednesday, August 22, 2018

QUOTES AND POETRY ABOUT FRIENDSHIP


Happy Friendship Day Quotes for Husband


When I have attempted to join myself to others by services, it proved an intellectual trick, - no more. They eat your service like apples, and leave you out. But love them, and they feel you, and delight in you all the time.

  Emerson



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So, if I live or die to serve my friend,
’Tis for my love,—’tis for my friend alone,
And not for any rate that friendship bears
In heaven or on earth.

George Eliot



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Old friends are the only ones whose hold is upon our inmost being; others but half replace them.

Voltaire



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True friends appear less mov’d than counterfeit.

Horace



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It is sublime to feel and say of another, I need never meet, or speak, or write to him; we need not reënforce ourselves, or send tokens of remembrance; I rely on him as on myself; if he did thus and thus, I know it was right.

Emerson




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A true Friendship is as wise as it is tender. The parties to it yield implicitly to the guidance of their love, and know no other law but kindness.

Henry D. Thoreau




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Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat or violence or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after. The more graceful and ornamental it was, the more clearly do we discern the hopelessness of restoring it to its former state. Coarse stones, if they are fractured, may be cemented again; precious stones never.

Landor



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Friendship’s the wine of life.

Young



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Give me the avow’d, the erect, the manly foe;
Bold I can meet, perhaps may turn his blow;
But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send,
Save, save, oh! save me from the candid friend.

George Canning




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How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual Friends, that we may go and meet their ideal cousins.

Henry D. Thoreau



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Common friendships will admit of division; one may love the beauty of this, the good humor of that person, the liberality of a third, the paternal affection of a fourth, the fraternal love of a fifth, and so on. But this friendship that possesses the whole soul, and there rules and sways with an absolute sovereignty, can admit of no rival.

Montaigne



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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge




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We love everything on our own account; we even follow our own taste and inclination when we prefer our friends to ourselves; and yet it is this preference that alone constitutes true and perfect friendship.

La Rochefoucauld




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Friendships begin with liking or gratitude.

George Eliot




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In friendship I early was taught to believe.

Byron




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In all thy humors, whether grave or mellow
Thou’rt such a touchy, testy, pleasant fellow,
Hast so much wit and mirth and spleen about thee,
That there’s no living with thee, or without thee.

Addison




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Friendship of itself a holy tie,
Is made more sacred by adversity.

Dryden



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Love and friendship exclude one another.

La Bruyère



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Friendship is a severe sentiment, solidly seated, since it rests upon all that is highest in us, the purely intellectual part of us. What happiness to be able to say all that one feels to someone who comprehends one to the very end and not only up to a certain point, to someone who completes one’s thought with the same word that was on one’s lips, someone the reply of whom starts from one a torrent of conceptions, a flood of ideas!

Pierre Loti




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The man that hails you Tom or Jack,
And proves by thumps upon your back
How he esteems your merit,
Is such a friend that one had need
Be very much his friend indeed
To pardon or to bear it.

Cowper



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Judge before friendship, then confide till death.

Young



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Have no friend not equal to yourself.

Confucius


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