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Friends and friendship

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

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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

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

Watson, Thomas J.

Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Perry, Ralph B.

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

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

Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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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These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

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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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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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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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

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

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Theocritus

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

Lee, Robert E.

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Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

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

Euripides

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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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Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

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

Pepys, Samuel

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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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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If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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

Hazlip, E.R.

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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.