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It is a sweet thing, friendship, a dear balm,
A happy and auspicious bird of calm…”
- Shelly

“What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. They are but trifles, to be sure but, scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.”

“No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.”
- George Eliot

Friends have all things in common.”
- Plato
“Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.”
- Artistotle 
“My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.”
- Henry Ford 

“Too late we learn, a man must hold his friend
Unjudged, accepted, trusted to the end.”
- John Boyle O’Reilly

“Sir, more than kisses, letters, mingle souls;
For, thus friends absent speak.”
- John Donne

“I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man’s milk and restorative cordial.”
- Thomas Jefferson

“I count myselt in nothing else so happy
As in a soul rememb’ring my good friends.”
- William Shakespeare

“The best mirror is an old friend.”
- George Herbert
“What is a friend? A single soul in two bodies.”
- Aristotle 
“The friendship that can cease has never been real.”
- Saint Jerome 

Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.”
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge