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Friends and friendship

A good friend is my nearest relation.

- Fuller, Thomas

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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

Epicurus

Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

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

Santayana, George

Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

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

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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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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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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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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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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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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

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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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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Theocritus

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A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

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Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

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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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Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

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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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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

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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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The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Swift, Jonathan

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The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Gay, John

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Proverb, Jewish

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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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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Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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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