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Friends and friendship

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

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

Lee, Robert E.

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Prentice, George D.

One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

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

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

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A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

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

Terence

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

19.

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

20.

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

21.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

25.

If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

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

Hsieh, Tehyi

28.

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

29.

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

30.

In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

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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

33.

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

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

Proverb, Indian

38.

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

39.

Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

40.

Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

43.

When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

44.

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

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

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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.

47.

With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon