Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!
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... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by read more
... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.
Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think read more
A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.
A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.
A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.
Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.
Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.
A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.
A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.
Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.
Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.
Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest read more
Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you read more
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
