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Friends and friendship

Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

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Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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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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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

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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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

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

Proverb, Jewish

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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

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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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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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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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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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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

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Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

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

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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

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To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bible

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Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

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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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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

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A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

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A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De