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Friends and friendship

May I always be worth of my friends.

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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

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.

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

Home, Henry

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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

FeNelon, Francois

Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

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

Pythagoras

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

White, Somers

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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

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It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

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It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

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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

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, 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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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

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Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Bukowski, Charles

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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

Bible

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

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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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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

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Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

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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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Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

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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