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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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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

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

In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

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

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

O'Malley, Austin

Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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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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Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

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

Proverb, Russian

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

Proverb, Russian

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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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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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A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

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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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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

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But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Schulberg, Budd

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

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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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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

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For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

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Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

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