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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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Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

FeNelon, Francois

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Machado, Aaron

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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

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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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

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When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

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Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Proverb, Arabian

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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 friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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May I always be worth of my friends.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Gay, John

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The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.