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Friends and friendship

Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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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.

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

Walker, Alice

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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

Seneca

He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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.

We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Moody, Jess

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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

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

Larson, Doug

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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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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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

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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

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May I always be worth of my friends.

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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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To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

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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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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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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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It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

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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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The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

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

Euripides

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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

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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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Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

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It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

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

Breton, Nicholas

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Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

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

Toast, Irish

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Chambers, Oswald

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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay