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Friends and friendship

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A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

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.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

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

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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

Tate, Nahum

10.

What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

11.

That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

13.

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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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

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A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

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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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May I always be worth of my friends.

21.

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

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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

24.

We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

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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

28.

My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

30.

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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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

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Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Proverb, Indian

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

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

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

Holz, Julie

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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.