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Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Larson, Doug

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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 friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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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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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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Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

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When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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

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All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

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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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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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

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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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Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

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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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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

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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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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

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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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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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Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

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A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer