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A divine person is the prophecy of the mind; a friend is the hope of the heart.
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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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Let the soul be assured that somewhere in the universe it should rejoin its friend, and it would be content and cheerful alone for a thousand years.
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Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions, because we have made them a texture of wine and dreams, instead of the tough fibre of the human heart.
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The higher the style we demand of friendship, of course the less easy to establish it with flesh and blood.
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The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.
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The soul environs itself with friends that it may enter into a grander self-acquaintance or solitude; and it goes alone for a season, that it may exalt its conversation or society.
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What a perpetual disappointment is actual society, even of the virtuous and gifted!
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The laws of friendship are austere and eternal, of one web with the laws of nature and of morals.
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Society we must have; but let it be society, and not exchanging news, or eating from the same dish.