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Friends and friendship

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

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Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Storey, David

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

Breton, Nicholas

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Theocritus

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Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

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

O'Malley, Austin

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

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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.

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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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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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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Sallust

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

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Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

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To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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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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Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

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Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

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If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

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You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

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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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One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur