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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

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Moody, Jess

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

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Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

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Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

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A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

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Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

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Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

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My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

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Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

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A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

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Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

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The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

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Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

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Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

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A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.