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Friends and friendship

A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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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

I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

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

I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Young, Brigham

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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

11.

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

12.

I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Larson, Doug

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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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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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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

18.

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

20.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

21.

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

Bible

22.

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

Machado, Aaron

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Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

24.

The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

25.

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

Proverb, Jewish

26.

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

27.

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

Ebers, George

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

30.

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

32.

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

Ovid

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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

35.

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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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

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

Bach, Richard

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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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For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

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A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

43.

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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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

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

Proverb, Russian

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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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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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

Schulberg, Budd

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

Chambers, Oswald