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Friends and friendship

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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

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

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

Breton, Nicholas

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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

Dickens, Charles

10.

I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

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Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

18.

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

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Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

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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 multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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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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A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

27.

Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

28.

There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

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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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As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

32.

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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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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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

35.

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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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

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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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Make friends before you need them

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The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

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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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Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

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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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A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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

Pythagoras

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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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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