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Friends and friendship

Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

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

Perry, Ralph B.

Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

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

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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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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Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

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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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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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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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To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making 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

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

Sallust

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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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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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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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