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Friends and friendship

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

- Johnson, Samuel

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Tate, Nahum

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

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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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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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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Terence

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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

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

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

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Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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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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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

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

Randolf, G.

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The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

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

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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May I always be worth of my friends.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

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

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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

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

Bach, Richard

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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

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A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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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

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It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De