For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
To have friends who will always take you to higher ground is an incalculable blessing.
Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.
Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.
We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience.
We all have common frailties but we need to treasure friends more.
A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.
The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another's defects, and the bearing of one another's burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society.
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.
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