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Friends and friendship

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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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Byrnes, James F.

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

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

Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

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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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Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

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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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A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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

Proverb

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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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Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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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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A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

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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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Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

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

Schulberg, Budd

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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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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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

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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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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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