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Friends and friendship

In comradeship is danger countered best.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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

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

Proverb

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

Dickens, Charles

But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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

Mermet, Claude

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The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

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However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

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A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Walker, Alice

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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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 good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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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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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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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

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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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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Proverb, Arabian

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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

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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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A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

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That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

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

Proverb, Spanish

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The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.