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Friends and friendship

Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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

Proverb, English

Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

... 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

Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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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 friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

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Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. 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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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

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A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

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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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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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Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

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My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

24.

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

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

Tate, Nahum

29.

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

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

Euripides

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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.

32.

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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The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

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The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

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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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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

38.

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

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It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

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The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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

Randolf, G.

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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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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 man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.