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Friends and friendship

A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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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

Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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

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

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

Hazlip, E.R.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

O'Malley, Austin

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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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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

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Make friends before you need them

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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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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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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

Edwards, Robert C.

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Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

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If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

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

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

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You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

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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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Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Auden, W. H.

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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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