Samuel Johnson Quotes About Friendship
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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions. What we have missed long enough to want it, we value more when it is regained; but that which has been lost till it is forgotten will be found at last with little gladness, and with still less if a substitute has supplied the place.
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To those who have lived long together, everything heard and everything seen recalls some pleasure communicated, some benefit conferred, some petty quarrel or some slight endearment. Esteem of great powers, or amiable qualities newly discovered may embroider a day or a week, but a friendship of twenty years is interwoven with the texture of life.
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Life has no pleasure higher or nobler than that of friendship.
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To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.
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Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
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The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.
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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.
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Friendship is not always the sequel of obligation.
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He endearing elegance of female friendship.
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Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. he whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.
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Officious, innocent, sincere, Of every friendless name the friend.
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Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.
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There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
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The friendship which is to be practised or expected by common mortals, must take its rise from mutual pleasure, and must end when the power ceases of delighting each other.
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Your aspirations are your possibilities.
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The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal.
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A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
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