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Friends and friendship

Friends show their love in times of trouble...

- Euripides

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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

My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

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

Randolf, G.

To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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May I always be worth of my friends.

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A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

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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.

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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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Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

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Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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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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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

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Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

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Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

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

Proverb

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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

Auden, W. H.

32.

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

34.

Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

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How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

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Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

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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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A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.