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Friendship Quotes - Page 69

You can't always be friendly. It's impossible, there isn't the time.

Tove Jansson (2003). “Tales from Moominvalley”, p.17, Penguin UK

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1792-1793”, p.292, Cosimo, Inc.

I have loved my friends as I do virtue, my soul, my God.

Sir Thomas Browne (1872). “Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and Other Papers”, p.129

Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from friends.

Theocritus (1947). “A Translation of the Idylls of Theocritus”, Cambridge : University Press

Close friends love you for who you are; not what they want you to be.

Ted Rall (1998). “Revenge of the latchkey kids: an illustrated guide to surviving the 90s and beyond”, Workman Publishing

Interdependence is a higher value than independence

Stephen R. Covey (2008). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Personal Workbook”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

For to cast away a virtuous friend, I call as bad as to cast away one's own life, which one loves best.

Sophocles (1837). “The Tragedies of Sophocles: Literally Translated Into English Prose, with Notes”, p.19

To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.

Simone Weil (2015). “First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge”, p.43, Wipf and Stock Publishers

Acquaintance many, and conquaintance few, But for inquaintance I know only two - The friend I've wept and the maid I woo.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1912). “The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.1199, Library of Alexandria

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

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