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Friends and friendship

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

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

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

Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

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

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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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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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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

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

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

Schulberg, Budd

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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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Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

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The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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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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The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

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

Lee, Robert E.

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Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

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

Wycherley, William

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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Edwards, Robert C.

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

Proverb, Russian

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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

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To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

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

O'Malley, Austin

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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.