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Friends and friendship

A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

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How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

10.

Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

11.

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

Proverb, Jewish

12.

Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

13.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Proverb

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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

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There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

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Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Chambers, Oswald

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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

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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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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

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You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

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I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Breton, Nicholas

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It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

30.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

32.

A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

33.

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

Sallust

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

37.

It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

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

Bennett, Arnold

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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May I always be worth of my friends.

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Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Machado, Aaron

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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

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That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

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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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Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag