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Friends and friendship

He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Randall, Erwin T.

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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

Gabirol, Ibn

There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points of attraction; but they have one that neutralizes all these --they care nothing about you, and are neither the better nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They live in society as in a solitude.

Hazlitt, William

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

Wycherley, William

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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Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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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

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

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What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

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

Euripides

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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

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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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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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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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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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

30.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

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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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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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Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

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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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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Joubert, Joseph

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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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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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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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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The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.