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Friends and friendship

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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

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

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

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Proverb, Russian

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

Proverb

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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Crane, Frank

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Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

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For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

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

Wycherley, William

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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

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

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

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Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

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

Crane, Frank

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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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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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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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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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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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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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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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 best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

35.

Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

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A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

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

O'Malley, Austin

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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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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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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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

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