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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 man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

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

Piper, E. K.

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

FeNelon, Francois

10.

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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All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

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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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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

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

Proverb

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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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Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

18.

Make friends before you need them

19.

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

White, Somers

20.

Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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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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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

25.

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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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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Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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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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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

35.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

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You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Ebers, George

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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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Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

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And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

48.

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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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Moody, Jess