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Friends and friendship

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

- Euripides

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

... 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

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

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

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

Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

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.

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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

12.

I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

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There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

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

Bible

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And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

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Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Wycherley, William

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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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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

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A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Indian

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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

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Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

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To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

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Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

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It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

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Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman