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Friends and friendship

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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Ovid

A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

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Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

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

Holz, Julie

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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

Ebers, George

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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

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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

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

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In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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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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Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

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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

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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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 is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

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Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

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A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

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

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Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

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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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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

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In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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

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To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel