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Friends and friendship

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

- Jefferson, Thomas

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

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

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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.

Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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

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

Proverb, Arabian

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A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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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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Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

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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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Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

Aristotle

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

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Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

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To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

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Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

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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 faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

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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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

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The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Russian

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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

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Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

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

Terence

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

White, Elwyn Brooks

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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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

Clark, Esther M.

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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

Proverb

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

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

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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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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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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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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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Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.