Distant Friend Quotes

• Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

  Washington Irving

  Friendship, Inspiring, Goodbye

  Washington Irving, William Irving (1824). “Salmagundi”, p.151

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• Good friends must not always be together; It is the feeling of oneness when distant That proves a lasting friendship.

  Susan Polis Schutz

  Cute, Friendship, Good Friend

  Susan Polis Schutz (1974). “Peace flows from the sky”, Blue Mountain Press

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• The distant soul can shake the distant friend's soul and make the longing felt, over untold miles.

  John Masefield

  Long Distance Relationship, Soul, Longing

  John Masefield, Audrey Napier-Smith, William Buchan (1983). “Letters to Reyna”, London : Buchan & Enright

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• A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like that of a slight bow or cursory salutation - a proof of unwillingness to do much, even where there is a necessity of doing something.

  Samuel Johnson

  Letters, Bows, Opinion

  Samuel Johnson (2014). “The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume I: 1731-1772”, p.196, Princeton University Press

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• The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.

  Paul Cezanne

  Friendship, Laziness, Sun

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• Blest be the gracious Power, who taught mankind
  To stamp a lasting image of the mind!
  Beasts may convey, and tuneful birds may sing,
  Their mutual feelings, in the opening spring;
  But Man alone has skill and power to send
  The heart's warm dictates to the distant friend;
  'Tis his alone to please, instruct, advise
  Ages remote, and nations yet to rise.

  George Crabbe

  Spring, Heart, Men

  George Crabbe (1858). “The Poetical Works of George Crabbe”, p.60

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