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Friends and friendship

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

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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Proverb, Jewish

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Winchell, Walter

Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

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

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Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

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Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. 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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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hazlip, E.R.

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Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

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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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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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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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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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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

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

Crane, Frank

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Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

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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

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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

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Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

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A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

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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

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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

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A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Chambers, Oswald

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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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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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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

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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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A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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

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

Woolf, Virginia

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Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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

Gay, John

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A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan