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Friends and friendship

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

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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

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.

The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

... 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

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

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

Euripides

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

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Randolf, G.

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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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If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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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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Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

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

Prentice, George D.

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The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

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

Proverb

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I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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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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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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Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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

Clark, Esther M.

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A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

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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.

Condie, Sheryl

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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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Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

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Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.