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Friends and friendship

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

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

I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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

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

Hsieh, Tehyi

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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

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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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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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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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In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

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There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points of attraction; but they have one that neutralizes all these --they care nothing about you, and are neither the better nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They live in society as in a solitude.

Hazlitt, William

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Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

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Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

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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

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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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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A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Epicurus

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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

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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

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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

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The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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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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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur