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Friends and friendship

Friends show their love in times of trouble...

- Euripides

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Pythagoras

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Tate, Nahum

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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.

The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

10.

Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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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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Make friends before you need them

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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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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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

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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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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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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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Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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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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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.

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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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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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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A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

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There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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

White, Somers

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William