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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

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

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

Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

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

My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

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.

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

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

Breton, Nicholas

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

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

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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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A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

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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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He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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

Storey, David

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

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A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

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A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

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If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

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

Proverb, Arabian

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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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Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.