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Friends and friendship

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

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

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

I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

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Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

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Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

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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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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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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

18.

The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

21.

Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Proverb, Indian

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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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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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

Jerome, St.

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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

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

Storey, David

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Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

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How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

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My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

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Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

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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

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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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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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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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A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

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There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.