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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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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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

Lee, Robert E.

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

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

10.

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

11.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

12.

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Barrymore, Ethel

14.

No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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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When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

20.

Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

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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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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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It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

25.

Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

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A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

30.

Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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

33.

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

White, Somers

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

Proverb, Jewish

35.

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

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

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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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Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

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

Kaufman, Lois L.

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

Quarles, Francis

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Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

44.

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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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

46.

Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

47.

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ebers, George