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Friends and friendship

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

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Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Tate, Nahum

To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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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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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

23.

A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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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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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

28.

Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

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The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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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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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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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

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

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I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Proverb, Russian

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

Aristotle

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Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

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You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.