Размышления великих людей о дружбе

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Friendship is the great chain of human society.

Howell.

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Friendship is an allay of our sorrows, the ease of our passions, the discharge of our oppressions, the sanctuary to our calamities, the counsellor of our doubts, the charity of our minds, the emission of our thoughts, the exercise and improvement of what we meditate.

Taylor.

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Friendship springs up from sources so subtile and undefinable, that it cannot be forced into particular channels; and whenever the attempt has been made, it has usually been unsuccessful.

Day.

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God wills that we have sorrows here,

And we will share it;

Whisper thy sorrow in my ear,

That I may also bear it.

If anywhere our trouble seems

To find an end,

'Tis in the fairy land of dreams,

Or with a friend.

Tennyson.

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Friendship is a union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue.

Penn.

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Friendship that makes the least noise is very often the most useful; for which reason I should prefer a prudent friend to a zealous one.

Addison.

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Friendship, like love, is but a name

Unless to one you stint the flame.

The child, whom many fathers share,

Hath seldom known a father's care.

'Tis thus in friendships; who depends

On many, rarely finds a friend.

Gay.

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Friend is a word of royal tone;

Friend is a poem all alone.

From the Persian.

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Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love. It is well worthwhile to learn how to win the heart of man the right way. Force is of no use to make or preserve a friend, who is an animal that is never caught and tamed but by kindness and pleasure. Excite them by your civilities, and show them that you desire nothing more than their satisfaction; oblige with all your soul that friend who has made you a present of his own.

Socrates.

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He, who gives pleasure, meets with it; kindness is the bond of friendship, and the book of love; he who sows not, reaps not.

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Friendship is the holiest of gifts,

God can bestow nothing more sacred upon us!

It enhances every joy, mitigates every pain.

Everyone can have a friend

Who himself knows how to be a friend.

Teidge.

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