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Friends and friendship

A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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

Bach, Richard

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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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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

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

Johnson, Samuel

13.

Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

18.

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

19.

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

20.

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 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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Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

23.

The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

28.

Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

29.

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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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

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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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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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Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

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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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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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

Proverb, Arabian

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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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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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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

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In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

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

Hazlip, E.R.

46.

Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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

Digest, Readers

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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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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin