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Friends and friendship

Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

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Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

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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

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

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

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.

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

You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Randolf, G.

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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

14.

Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

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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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A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

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A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

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It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

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... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Make friends before you need them

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

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Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

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Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

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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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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

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There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

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A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

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The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish