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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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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

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Bible

If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

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

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

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

Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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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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The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

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A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

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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 an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Euripides

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Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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

Addison, Joseph

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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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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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Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John