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Friends and friendship

He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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

Proverb, Russian

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

Bukowski, Charles

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

Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

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

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

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

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We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

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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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... 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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You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

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Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Winchell, Walter

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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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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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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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

Euripides

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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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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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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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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar