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

Disraeli, Benjamin

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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

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

Yeats, William Butler

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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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A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

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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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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Bible

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

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Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

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All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

25.

The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

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You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

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

Crane, Frank

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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

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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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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

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There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

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A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus