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

Powell, John Enoch

Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

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

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

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

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

Theocritus

It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Proverb, Russian

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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

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Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

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Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

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Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

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It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

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Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

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How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

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When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

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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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Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

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

Thackeray, William M.

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There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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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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Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

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... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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

Terence

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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Yeats, William Butler

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

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That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

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A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.