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Friends and friendship

A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

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

A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

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

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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

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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

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

Bible

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

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Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

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A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

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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

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

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I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

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Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Prentice, George D.

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Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

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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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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle