“There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.”
— Edgar Allan Poe
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
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“The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller, Gabriel Noone, who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans, an abused 14-year-old teenager who is suffering from AIDS, who does not have much longer to live.”
— Armistead Maupin
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“If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.”
— George MacDonald
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“Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.”
— Francis Bacon
Author: Francis Bacon
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“Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.”
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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“My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it.”
— Georg Brandes
Author: Georg Brandes
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“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.”
— C. S. Lewis
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“Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.”
— Seneca
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“Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.”
— Jean de La Fontaine
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“I would like to raise my glass to friendship between Russia and the United States.”
— Richard Lugar
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“Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?”
— Dennis Prager
Author: Dennis Prager
Category: friendship
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