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Friends and friendship

To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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

White, Somers

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

Aristotle

Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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

My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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

Talmud, The

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Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

15.

We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

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The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

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... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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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

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It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

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

Gay, John

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However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

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What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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

Proverb, Jewish

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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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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Ustinov, Peter

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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

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

Larson, Doug

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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

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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

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

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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Lee, Robert E.

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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

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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

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There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points of attraction; but they have one that neutralizes all these --they care nothing about you, and are neither the better nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They live in society as in a solitude.

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.