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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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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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

For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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

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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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Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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

18.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Augustine, St.

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Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

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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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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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

Hazlitt, William

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You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

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

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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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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 Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

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Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

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

Proverb, Sicilian

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

Saying, Hasidic

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

Proverb, Russian

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

Piper, E. K.

43.

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

44.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian