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Friends and friendship

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

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

The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

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

Pythagoras

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

Seneca

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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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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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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

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Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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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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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Hazlitt, William

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

FeNelon, Francois

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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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Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

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In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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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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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

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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 true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Hazlip, E.R.

36.

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

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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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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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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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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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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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

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If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.