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Friends and friendship

And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

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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

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

The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

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

Randolf, G.

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

Yeats, William Butler

You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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

Bennett, Arnold

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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Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

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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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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

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

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A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

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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

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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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I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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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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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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

Terence

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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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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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Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

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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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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

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

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Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

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A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Crane, Frank

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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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