--COWPER.
He is a friend indeed who proves himself a friend in need.--PLAUTUS.
Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not.--PROVERBS 27:10.
To God, thy country, and thy friend be true.--VAUGHAN.
There is no man so friendless but that he can find a friend sincere
enough to tell him disagreeable truths.--LYTTON.
A 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.
A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that
actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of
friends; and that the most liberal professions of good-will are very
far from being the surest marks of it.--GEORGE WASHINGTON.
No friend's a friend till he shall prove a friend.--BEAUMONT AND
FLETCHER.
The qualities of your friends will be those of your enemies,--cold
friends, cold enemies; half friends, half enemies; fervid enemies,
warm friends.--LAVATER.
Purchase no friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give such will
cease to love.--FULLER.
The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend as to find a friend
worth dying for.--HENRY HOME.
Real friendship is a slow grower, and never thrives unless engrafted
upon a stock of known and reciprocal merit.--CHESTERFIELD.
There is nothing more becoming any wise man, than to make choice of
friends, for by them thou shalt be judged what thou art: let them
therefore be wise and virtuous, and none of those that follow thee for
gain; but make election rather of thy betters, than thy
inferiors.
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