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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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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Chambers, Oswald

The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

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One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

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Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

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

Pepys, Samuel

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Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

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

Euripides

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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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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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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

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Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

31.

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Ovid

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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Aristotle

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Make friends before you need them

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

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