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Friends and friendship

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

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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

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.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

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I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

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Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

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I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

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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

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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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 true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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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

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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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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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You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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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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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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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

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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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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

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To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

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

Hsieh, Tehyi

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

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I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.