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Friends and friendship

He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Prentice, George D.

No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Proverb, Russian

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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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Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

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It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

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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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A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

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That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

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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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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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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Homer

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

White, Somers

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

Quarles, Francis

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

Tate, Nahum

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

Proverb, English

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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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As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

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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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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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Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

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Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.