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Friends and friendship

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

- Johnson, Samuel

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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.

There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Budgell, Eustace

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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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 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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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

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

Byrnes, James F.

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

Edwards, Robert C.

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

Proverb, Arabian

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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

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If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

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Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

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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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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

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The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

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A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

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

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian