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Friends and friendship

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

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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.

Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Moody, Jess

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

Santayana, George

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

Euripides

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

Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Proverb, Indian

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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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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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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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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

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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

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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

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Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Bible

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Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

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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

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Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

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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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If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

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Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

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

Walker, Alice

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But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

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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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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May