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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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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

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

Proverb, Russian

He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

10.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

11.

Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

13.

Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

14.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

15.

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

16.

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

18.

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

19.

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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The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

22.

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

23.

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

24.

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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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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May I always be worth of my friends.

30.

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

Ustinov, Peter

31.

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

Jerome, St.

32.

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

33.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

35.

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

Proverb, Indian

36.

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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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Euripides

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.

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

Proverb, English

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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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The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

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Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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