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Friends and friendship

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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

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I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

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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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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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

Breton, Nicholas

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

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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Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

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

Luther, Martin

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A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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

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You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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

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You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

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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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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 friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

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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 Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

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Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.