We have few friendships, because we are not willing to pay the price of friendship.
Hugh Black
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Hand Grasps hand, eye lights eye in good friendship, And great hearts expand, And grow one in the sense of this world's life. |
Robert Browning
A friend whom you have been gaining during your whole life, you ought not to be displeased with in a moment. A stone is many years becoming a ruby; take care that you do not destroy it in an instant against another stone.
Saadi
Once let friendship be given that is born of God, nor time nor circumstance can change it to a lessening; it must be mutual growth, increasing trust, widening faith, enduring patience, forgiving love, unselfish ambition—an affection built before the Throne, that will bear the test of time and trial.
Allan Throckmorton