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Friends and friendship

It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

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

Winchell, Walter

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

Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

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.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

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Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

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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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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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

Bourne, Randolph S.

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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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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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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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Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

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It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

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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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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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

Gay, John

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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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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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A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

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May I always be worth of my friends.

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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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It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

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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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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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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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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

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

Aristotle

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

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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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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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