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Friends and friendship

Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

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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

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Talmud, The

Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

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's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

11.

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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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

14.

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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Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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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

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

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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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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Larson, Doug

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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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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

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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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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

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May I always be worth of my friends.

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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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The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

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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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All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

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A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

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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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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

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It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

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A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

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