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Friends and friendship

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

- Storey, David

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

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Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. 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

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

May I always be worth of my friends.

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

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. 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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Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

12.

The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

13.

Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

14.

A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

15.

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

Holz, Julie

16.

The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

17.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

18.

Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

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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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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

22.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

24.

The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

25.

And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

26.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

27.

There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

28.

Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

29.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

30.

Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

31.

My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

32.

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

34.

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

38.

What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

39.

Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

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Make friends before you need them

44.

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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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

47.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas