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Friends and friendship

A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

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Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

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There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points of attraction; but they have one that neutralizes all these --they care nothing about you, and are neither the better nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They live in society as in a solitude.

Hazlitt, William

A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

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Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

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For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

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Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

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The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Chambers, Oswald

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The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

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The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

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One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

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Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

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Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver