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Friends and friendship

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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

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

Piper, E. K.

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

I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

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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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... 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, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

18.

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

Proverb, Russian

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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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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

21.

Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

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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

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Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

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Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

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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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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

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

Schulberg, Budd

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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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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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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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

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Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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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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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same