Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.

Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.

Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe;
Bold I can meet--perhaps may turn his blow;
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Give me the avowed, 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.

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their
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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.

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, read more

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

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is
a friend that sticketh closer than a read more

A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is
a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask read more

I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book read more

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.rnRead more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/abraham_lincoln_2.html#0P2cCWMdWjEvdFdb.99rn