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Friends and friendship

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

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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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

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

Bible

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.

I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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

Blake, William

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

Ustinov, Peter

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

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

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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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A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

18.

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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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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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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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.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Make friends before you need them

28.

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

Jerome, St.

29.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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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

34.

Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

35.

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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

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A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

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

Proverb, Indian

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Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

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We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Moody, Jess

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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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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

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What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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

Swift, Jonathan

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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace