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Friends and friendship

The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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

White, Somers

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

Mermet, Claude

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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

Joubert, Joseph

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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

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Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

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It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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

18.

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

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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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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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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Breton, Nicholas

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Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

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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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The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Arabian

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

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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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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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Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

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The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

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Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

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A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

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

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Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

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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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Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

44.

Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David