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Friends and friendship

Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

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

Epicurus

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

A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

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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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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

12.

The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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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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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

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Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

21.

The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

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

Wycherley, William

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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

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The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Proverb

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Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

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

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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Chambers, Oswald

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

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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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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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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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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil