A Quote by Eustace Budgell
Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship; it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting.
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Friendship is far more delicate than love. Quarrels and fretful complaints are attractive in the last, offensive in the first. And the very things which heap fewel on the fire of ardent passion, choke and extinguish sober and true regard. On the other hand, time, which is sure to destroy that love of which half certainly depends on desire, is as sure to increase a friendship founded on talents, warm with esteem, and ambitious of success for the object of it.
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Next to God, love is the word most mangled in every language. The highest form of regard between two people is friendship, and when love enters, friendship dies.
Friendship, compounded of esteem and love, derives from one its tenderness and its permanence from the other.
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Esteem incites friendship, but not love; the former is the twin brother of Reverence; the latter is the child of Equality.
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