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Friends and friendship

Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

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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

Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

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

Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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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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Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

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The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

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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

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

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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 friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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

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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

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A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

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Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

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I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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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

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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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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

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Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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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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Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

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

O'Malley, Austin