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Friends and friendship

A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

Saying, Hasidic

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

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

Augustine, St.

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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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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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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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A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

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A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

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

Hazlip, E.R.

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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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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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... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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

Talmud, The

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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