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Friends and friendship

A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

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.

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

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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

Auden, W. H.

Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Chambers, Oswald

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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

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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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The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

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Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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

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Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

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

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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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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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Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

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

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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

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

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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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The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

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The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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

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

Augustine, St.

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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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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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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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Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

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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.