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Friends and friendship

A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

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I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Santayana, George

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

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The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

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I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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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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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

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

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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

Digest, Readers

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

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

Holz, Julie

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Proverb, Jewish

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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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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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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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

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

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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

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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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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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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.