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Friends and friendship

He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Gabirol, Ibn

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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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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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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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Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

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Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

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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 come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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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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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

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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... 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

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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

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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

Proverb, Russian

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

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If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

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A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

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Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

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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 is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson